Visualizing Healthcare Provider Network using SAS® Tools

Healthcare provider network or patient-provider network is one kind of affiliation networks. Analyzing such networks allows us to gain additional insights on healthcare provider groups that share patients and patients that belong to the same group. This paper develops methods to visualize provider network data in healthcare using the Annotate facility. Link analysis is used to explore the connections between healthcare providers and patients, and hence connections between peer providers. In addition, this paper also takes advantage of the spatial information in the patient-provider data to gain additional insights. In particular, the connections between providers are projected on a Google map using Google Map Generator.