A Web-Based Application for Visualizing the CMS Referral Network

In recent years, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a large scale physician referral dataset. Combining this dataset with others containing enriched information of healthcare providers, we developed a web-based application that visualizes the CMS referral network focusing on physicians´ referrals to hospitals. The application can be used in many practical cases, providing evidence to facilitate decision making for many types of users such as patients, physicians, hospitals and governments.