For the Maven Healthcare Challenge, you'll be working as a Data Analyst for the American Hospital Association (AHA), a national organization that represents hospitals and their patients, and acts as a source of information on health care issues and trends.
As part of your role, you've been asked to analyze the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey results for the last 9 years. The intent of the HCAHPS initiative is to provide a standardized survey instrument for measuring patients’ perspectives on hospital care, and one of its 3 main goals is to "create incentives for hospitals to improve their quality of care".
Your task is to evaluate whether the HCAHPS survey has been successful in accomplishing this goal by answering questions like these:
- Have hospitals' HCAHPS scores improved over the past 9 years?
- Are there any specific areas where hospitals have made more progress than others?
- Are there any major areas of opportunity remaining?
- What recommendations can you make to hospitals to help them further improve the patient experience?
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- Maven Analytics will give away 1 Annual subscription for an Individual account, 1 "Challenge Winner" t-shirt, and a $100 Amazon gift card to the challenge winner. After the one year period, the subscription will renew at full price unlessed canceled (you can cancel at any time).
- The runner-up will receive a $50 Amazon gift card.
- No purchase is necessary to enter.
- Data Analyst Bootcamp is not included in this prize. That is a separate offering, and not eligible.
- The challenge will close to new entries on Sunday, September 10, 2023, at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted prior.
- After the submission deadline, finalists will be chosen by the Maven team.
- Maven Analytics will select 1 winner from the finalists, and will announce the winner on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 10:00am Eastern Standard Time. The official announcement will be posted on LinkedIn from the Maven Analytics LinkedIn account.
Don't want to participate in the Maven Healthcare Challenge? No problem. You can still analyze the data on your own. All of the Data Playground datasets are completely free and are available for everyone to learn with. Feel free to dig in anytime.
