Data Nerding in Public Health
summary
NHS prescribing and hospital datasets include 400 million prescription rows and millions of practice records and get processed with Hadoop, Cassandra and cloud servers to build visualisations, diffusion analyses and statistical models. Analysis quantifies that single‑doctor practices adopt a new diabetes drug later but a neighbourhood adoption effect is stronger, maps show prescribing variation worth £200 million a year, and quality‑outcome clusters highlight specific service gaps; code for an open health data platform is available.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:08Why Care
- 2:26The NHS
- 3:52Twitter Data
- 4:55Nesta Data
- 6:44Big Rich Data
- 7:19Neighbor Effect
- 7:44Cost Factors
- 10:15Quality Outcomes Framework
- 11:24Wrap up
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