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NFZ API
During my master’s thesis, which was covered by the diabetic topic, I discovered that there were available public data of the reimbursement by the NFZ (that’s the polish analog of the NHS). I tried to use the data to analyze them and make some conclusions.
While writing my master thesis, I figured out that an interactive website might be useful for performing analysis. In particular, the emphasis was placed on sales for given branches of the NFZ. Additionally, was developed functionality of year-to-year analysis. Moreover, was created the possibility of analysis per division and age groups according to the attributes.
On the left sidebar, there are links to the relevant tabs. On the right side, there is a search field to filter by active substance or product name. By default, the first item in the Suggestion field (this is the resulting product or active substance within the dictionary method).
The range of dates is between 2017 and 2018, due to the data being delivered by the government services. The NFZ division field is used in the ‘One division NFZ’ tab.
The additional attribute Dose allows selecting only products with a specific dose.
More information on the NFZ API https://api.nfz.gov.pl/app-stat-api-ra/
Analysis
One division of NFZ
Analysis of one NFZ branch is available for many products. Within this functionality, two charts are displayed. Each of them concerns the sale of specific products in a given area. The first one takes the label with the dose, while the second one shows the aggregated data.
Just choose from the right sidebar NFZ division and click the appropriate button on the tab to make an analysis.
In some cases, there might be displayed products with the same pill per pack and dose amount, but they differ with the EAN code.
All divisions of NFZ
In this tab, you can analyze sales by NFZ division. Just choose from the right sidebar NFZ division and click the appropriate button.
Yearly provision
Among the available functionalities of the NFZ API, it is possible to compare year-to-year sales of a product based on active substance or product name. Due to the availability of 2017-2018, it is only possible to compare these two years.