HRSA Population Health Dashboard

Chi Nguyen
Faculty advisor: Barbara Berkovich, PhD, MA

BACKGROUND RESULTS DISCUSSION

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is the primary
federal agency for improving health care to people who are
geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable.
They have an extensive network and operation nationwide:
1400+ health centers
90+ programs
30 million of American patients
17,000+ healthcare providers
The data of HRSA-funded health centers and other entities receiving
federal funding authorized under Section 330 of the Public Health
Service Act are required to report Uniform Data System (UDS).
Tableau
The data visualization is consolidated into 3 dashboard views:
- Effectiveness of Preventive Intervention
- Effectiveness of Chronic Disease Management
- HRSA Financial Analysis
1. HRSA Population Health Dashboard resolves the lack of
performance comparison dashboards for HRSA.
2. The current data is indicating the ineffectiveness of the preventive
and chronic care programs in reducing disease growth and
healthcare cost over the course of 3 years.
3. HRSA data constraints includes:
o HRSA only releases 3 years of data.
o HRSA data is in difficult format to retrieve.
o There are changes in clinical measure definitions over the years,
which might impact the accuracy of visualization.
o There are newly introduced measures that do not have enough
data to trend and analyze.

HRSA health data is rich, but the website provides limited

meaningful visualization and data-driven analysis.
PURPOSE
The HRSA Population Health Dashboard aims to provide a data-
driven tool for the HRSA community health centers to examine their
characteristics associated with performance excellence over the
years.
It also consolidates HRSA data over years for users to conduct
trendline and pattern analysis.
Finally, it offers an interactive prediction application that uses
Machine Learning to predict the healthcare cost of a health center
provided other measures.
METHOD
1. Data Sources: HRSA data from Uniform Data System between
2017 and 2019.
2. Preparation: Data scraping from HRSA website and data cleaning
3. Tools:
• Data Preparation: Python, Excel
• Visualization: Tableau Desktop 2020.2.12, Tableau Public
• Python Machine Learning Libraries
• Application Development: Streamlit
• Website Hosting: Weebly, Heroku
Machine Learning NEXT STEPS & OPPORTUNTIES
The best model to forecast the
cost per patient with HRSA o The HRSA Population Health Dashboard will be published for
data is ExtraTrees. public view at https://hrsadashboard.weebly.com
o The datasets used to run the dashboard can expand further to
add more insights.
o We can collect data every year to increase the accuracy of our
prediction model.
o The website can improve its user interface and user experience.
o We can integrate HRSA-provided APIs to the dashboard to get
The most important features that impact the prediction of real-time data.
healthcare cost are rate of
HIV, rate of Minority, rate
of Patients at or Below
REFERENCES
200% of Federal Poverty
1. Health Resources and Services Administration. (2021). National
Guideline, rate of Mental
Services, rate of Veterans,
Health Center Data [Dataset]. Health Resources and Services
Administration Data Warehouse.
and rate of Homeless
https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/data-reporting/program-data
Patients.
2. Health Resources and Services Administration. (2020, June 8).
About HRSA. Official Web Site of the U.S. Health Resources &
Services Administration. https://www.hrsa.gov/about/index.html
The prediction application uses ExtraTrees model and HRSA data
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https://towardsdatascience.com/predicting-housing-prices-using-a-s
measures and outputs the predicted cost per patient. cikit-learns-random-forest-model-e736b59d56c5
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es

Please contact the author via email: chinguyen@sandiego.edu