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Basic Healthcare Graph Model

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About This MicroSim

This is the simplest possible illustration of a graph: five nodes and the edges between them. Each node is an entity — a patient, a provider, a diagnosis, a medication, and a facility — and each labeled arrow is a relationship: the patient is TREATED_BY the provider, HAS_DIAGNOSIS of type 2 diabetes, TAKES Metformin, and VISITS the hospital where the provider WORKS_AT. These two building blocks, nodes and edges, are all a graph database needs to represent richly-connected healthcare data.

How to Use

Identify each colored node by the legend, then read the labeled arrows to see the relationships between them — together the nodes and edges tell a small care story. This node-and-edge structure is the foundation every other graph in this book builds on. Drag the nodes to rearrange them and use the navigation buttons to pan and zoom.

Iframe Embed Code

You can add this MicroSim to any web page by adding this to your HTML:

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<iframe src="https://dmccreary.github.io/modeling-healthcare-data/sims/basic-healthcare-graph-model-diagram/main.html"
        height="450px"
        width="100%"
        scrolling="no"></iframe>

Lesson Plan

Grade Level

9-12 (High School Geometry)

Duration

10-15 minutes

Prerequisites

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Activities

  1. Exploration (5 min): TODO
  2. Guided Practice (5 min): TODO
  3. Assessment (5 min): TODO

Assessment

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References

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