Analyzing healthcare provider centric networks through secondary use of health claims data
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sauter, Simone Katja; Neuhofer, Lisa Maria; Endel, Gottfried; Klimek, Peter; Duftschmid, Georg
- Source
- IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on. :522-525 Jun, 2014
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Hospitals
Laboratories
Educational institutions
Security
Urban areas
Europe
- Language
- ISSN
- 2168-2194
2168-2208
Using health claims data of the Austrian social security system we derived networks of healthcare providers who share patients. Hereby we focused on networks of primary care physicians. Based on the characteristics of these networks potential implications for the upcoming Austrian national EHR system ELGA were drawn. Amongst others we conclude from our analysis that Austrian urban primary care physicians will use ELGA more intensively and benefit more from it than their rural colleagues.