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.