📜🕵️♂️Storytelling through Data
🔍 Aspiring Data Analyst | Data Scientist | 📊 Currently Learning Power BI
🚀 Documenting my journey to become a Data Analyst
🚨 New Series Announcement:
10 Weeks of Storytelling with Data🎯
I want to focus the upcoming weeks on building solid, real-world projects. But like many of you, I’ve also been facing the challenge of finding my niche and ideas.
Hey guys, haven’t been too active lately
Life happened.
Between freelance work, job technical rounds & a sinus infection, this break ended up longer than planned.
But I’m back & will try to be regular as I resume my series.
Life gets tough sometimes, how do you all manage it?
Analyzing and Building stuff!
Till now explored the Encounters (details of each time a patient interacts):
- Total Encounters every year
- % of Encounter of each class per year
- % of encounters were over 24 hours versus under 24 hours?
Now deep dive into the cost and admission
If you’ve ever looked at hospital data, you’ll see words like SNOMED CT, line items, encounter types… and wonder 🤔
“What do these mean?”
Let’s decode them with examples 👇
5. DRG (Diagnosis-Related Group)
A way hospitals group patient cases for payment.
💡 Example:
All patients admitted for “pneumonia” might be grouped under DRG 193 for billing purposes.
📊 Data Saves Lives. Literally.
While diving into healthcare data, I came across a Johns Hopkins study that left me speechless!
An AI+Data system that helps doctors catch sepsis hours earlier, cutting death risk by 20%. 🧵