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Title: Network Analysis of Academic Medical Center Websites in the United States

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  1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada)
  3. Oregon Health & Science Univ., Portland, OR (United States)
  4. Campbell Univ., Lillington, NC (United States)
  5. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  6. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  7. Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
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Healthcare resources are published annually in repositories such as the AHA Annual Survey DatabaseTM. However, these data repositories are created via manual surveying techniques which are cumbersome in collection and not updated as frequently as website information of the respective hospital systems represented. Also, this resource is not widely available to patients in an easy-to-use format. Network analysis techniques have the potential to create topological maps which serve to aid in pathfinding for patients in their search for healthcare services. This study explores the topological structure of forty United States academic health center websites. Network analysis is utilized to analyze and visualize 48,686 webpages. Several elements of network structure are examined including basic network properties, and centrality measures distributions. The Louvain community detection algorithm is used to examine the extent to which these techniques allow identification of healthcare resources within networks. The results indicate that websites with related healthcare services tend to form observable clusters useful in mapping key resources within a hospital system.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1986316
Report Number(s):
BNL-224539-2023-JAAM
Journal Information:
Scientific Data, Journal Name: Scientific Data Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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