KnowYourColors: Visual dashboards for blood metrics and healthcare analytics

Abstract

The understanding of medical test results is markedly improved through the use of visual analytics. While traditional theorists in the field of healthcare analytics seek to improve decision making through data mining and machine learning, Visual Analytics augments that intelligence by providing an interface to integrate all of the data in a composite image. KnowYourColors™ is a visual analytics interface providing many dashboards to help the healthcare and insurance providers make better decisions in treatment and spending. This paper discusses many of the visualizations that are used in those applications. This includes new visualizations focused around polar area diagrams that are designed for showing blood metrics and visualizations of prior research work that help in the decision making process. This paper also demonstrates the effectiveness of the application and the reactions of physicians and patients.