13 - 18 OCTOBER 2013, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

GapFlow: Visualizing Gaps in Care for Medical Treatment Plans

Contributors: 
David Gotz, Nan Cao, Esther Goldbraich, Boaz Carmeli
Description
Despite the widespread adoption of clinical guidelines (i.e. canonical treatment plan templates that represent generally accepted best practices), significant variations in care are often found across a population of patients. Gaps between the actual treatment programs performed on patients and the recommended guidelines are inevitable given the complexity of disease, differences between patients, and the individualized patient-centered decisions made by clinicians during each encounter. This poster presents a visualization tool designed to help clinical organizations better understand these gaps in care. We describe the input data, our analysis technique to classify individual gap events, and an interactive visualization technique which aggregates and summarizes the results for clinical interpretation.