Tag: Code for Kansas City

Anurag Patel, Helix Health

As healthcare pivots to value based service, Helix Health uses data analytics to reduce costs

By Tommy Felts / August 6, 2019

Prevention is cheaper than cure — a sentiment forming the foundation of Helix Health, said Anurag Patel. “The business of healthcare today is that if you’re sick, then you’re a customer of healthcare. If you’re healthy, then you’re not,” Patel said, describing a need for creating a business model that helps people stay healthy.  Helix Health…

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Code for Kansas City hacking into fifth year; more civic hackers needed

By Tommy Felts / September 20, 2017

After five years hacking, Code for Kansas City is expanding its reach with new projects and avenues for using the brigade’s coding and technology skills to identify and match problems in the community with potential solutions. A fifth annual hackathon event this weekend — the National Day of Civic Hacking or HackKC — illustrates the…

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Eviction in Kansas City

With 42 KC evictions per day, civic hackers pinpoint action with data

By Tommy Felts / September 5, 2017

Kansas City can be a leader on housing justice, Tara Raghuveer said. The details are in the data. Examining a Jackson County data set that included 173,720 eviction records spanning 17 years, Raghuveer, a Harvard-educated researcher and Shawnee Mission East High School graduate, confirmed a leading predictor of eviction in Kansas City: race. “It disproportionately…

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