Cost of getting sick

Ben Fry, Director of Seed Visualization, explains the work his team is doing to create visualization tools that make draw on GEs vast collection of six million patient records.

To gain a deeper understanding of healthcare costs, GE combined the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) with 500K records from GE's proprietary database. By combining MEPS with GE's data, we gain a more complete picture of the costs associated with chronic conditions. Drag the slider to view different ages, and click the pie wedges for each disease.

About this data The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage. This application was downloaded from GE's web site here:

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