What do income, education level, employment, social networks, and housing have in common with with healthcare? Experts widely accept that these factors, known as Social Determinants of Health, can greatly affect a person’s physical and mental wellbeing. The phrase Social Determinants of Health, or #SDOH as it commonly appears on social media, has received a...Read more

Post 3: In this post, I will summarize the steps used from the previous blog post in applying the T test to hospital quality data, using one of the measures from CMS Hospital Compare as an example. The formula references in this post are directly from prior blog, so it is probably helpful for you...Read more

Post 2: In the first blog post of this series, I introduced the idea of using Excel to run T test on hospital quality data from CMS Hospital Compare. I laid out the assumptions and approach to the analysis. Please check it out before proceeding. The focus of this blog is setting up the Excel...Read more

Post 1: Imagine you are in a pinch and need to run an analysis quickly and produce meaningful results. You throw your data into Excel, thinking all you need to do is enter some formulas and make it pretty. And then, after opening up with Excel and toying with your dataset, you realize this might...Read more

The Senate’s Health Care Transparency Initiative recently asked stakeholders for feedback. As part of Freedman HealthCare’s response outlining recommendations to maximize the opportunity of APCDs, this post focuses on the most effective methods to connect consumers with this data. Current Approaches to Publicize Price and Quality Transparency Websites: Launch events Ongoing social media postings Press...Read more

The Senate’s recently asked stakeholders for feedback. This is the fourth in a brief series of posts sharing Freedman HealthCare’s recommendations to maximize the opportunity of APCDs and alleviate barriers to the broad sharing of actionable health care data. This post focuses on how Congress could support APCDs in securing necessary resources. FHC works closely...Read more