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# Healthcare
- URL: https://fsc.stevens.edu/healthcare/
- Published: 2019-10-29T16:53:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-16T22:42:08.000Z
- Author: Zheng Xing
- Tags: Joint Projects, Research, #Import 2024-05-30 10:26, #Import 2025-11-08 22:14

### **The Need**

> Two factors make the provision of health services different from other services. First, many providers are organized as not-for-profit corporations as opposed to investor owned. Second, payment for services typically is made by third parties rather than by patients, who receive the services.

### **Work and Challenges**

- Started from scratch.
- Came up with our idea of what data to get, how to get the data, maintain it and visualize it
- Decided to get daily prices, market capitalization, volumes and daily news sentiments for better estimates how the stocks behaviors
- Added the major health reforms in the database for future reference
- Developed a trading strategy based upon the data collected
- Had to construct the insurance index

### **Potential Work**

- Research on how to maintain the database by feeding the data automatically from Bloomberg terminal.
- Include Volume or correlation between Volume and News sentiment as an additional trading strategy
- Expand the database to other sectors and implement similar strategies.

### **Internal Links**

- [**Database & Dynamic Visualization**](https://155.246.104.53/fevl/?q=healthcare/content&ref=fsc.stevens.edu)
- [**Code Resources**](https://155.246.104.53/fevl/?q=content/data-visualization-code-resource-0&ref=fsc.stevens.edu)

### **External Links**

- [**Health Care Reform**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%5Fcare%5Freform?ref=fsc.stevens.edu)
- [**Healthcare News and Informations**](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sector-healthcare/?ref=fsc.stevens.edu)
- [**Healthcare Sector - Intime**](https://biz.yahoo.com/p/5conameu.html?ref=fsc.stevens.edu)

### **Team Members**

- Waris Banthernpaesach, Financial Engineering , [wbanther@stevens.edu](mailto:wbanther@stevens.edu)
- Teko Teko-Agbo, Financial Engineering ,[ttekoagb@stevens.edu](mailto:ttekoagb@stevens.edu)
- Xingjia Zhang, Finacial Engineering, [xzhang21@stevens.edu](mailto:xzhang21@stevens.edu)