Pleased to report that John Halamka over at GeekDoctor posts today about our OrgScope in his Cool Technology of the Week series:
Understanding the six degrees of separation of healthcare in Eastern Massachusetts can be challenging with our numerous providers, private payers, public payers, and academic affiliations...
I found this hyperbolic viewer [OrgScope] much easier than an org chart for navigating a large number of complex relationships and look forward to the potential uses of this technology for visualizing our increasing connectedness in healthcare...
Over the past few months here at NetAge, we've taken a stab at mapping the relationships among the complex players in the Boston Healthcare network. Spaghetti, for sure, but since all of us here in Boston must somehow navigate that bowl of pasta, we're hopeful that these initial maps will contribute to making it easier for those working in healthcare here and for those of us consuming it. Thanks, Geek Doctor.
If you click through, you can play with the maps. This is but one picture. You can move it around, putting different institutions at the center, turn links on and off, and run analyses in a variety of ways. There's also an inside look at the organization chart of a fictitious large enterprise and Boston-Area Healthcare Network, a presentation that explains what we're up to with this stuff. Have fun with it and let me know what you think.