New Public Dashboard Explores Trends in Health Care

VisualCalc introduced a set of free dashboards – Health Care Dashboards - focused on the state of the U.S. health care system. These Health Care Dashboards can be found at the following link: www.publicdashboards.com/healthcare.

The Health Care Dashboards feature a set of graphical, interactive charts and graphs focused on current U.S. health care issues and trends. These dashboards contain easy-to-understand graphs and charts - called “indicators” - that help the public easily decipher some of the background data related to the health care reform discussions and debates dominating our news.

These dashboards do not take a position with respect to the “right” path to health care reform. Instead, they simply organize publicly available data in a set of interactive, visually engaging dashboards the help clarify the current state of our health care system.

These new Health Care Dashboards will be incorporated in VisualCalc’s public dashboard website: PublicDashboards.com. PublicDashboards.com contains a set of interactive online dashboards covering a variety of topical issues grouped into six categories: the economy, education, the environment, health & fitness, health care, and politics & society. PublicDashboards.com organizes detailed, complex data related to these issues into interactive, easy-to-use charts and graphs called indicators. These visual indicators help users identify trends or issues that might otherwise go undetected. In addition, these indicators enable users to perform deeper analysis into the underlying data. With a simple point-and-click, users can filter and drill-down into the indicators to customize their view of the data.

Organizations that track or communicate information related to any of these topics – including public or commercial websites and online or print media – are welcome to include links to these public dashboards on their websites. These links can be found on the PublicDashboards.com website.