The analytics company that I work at, Qforma, got itself on the front page of USA Today for its work on identifying influential physicians (BTW, the article includes a link to a database of these influential phys for 300 metro areas and 4 disease states):
Seems that you can use this fancy Santa Fe-style analytics for something useful after all :-)
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