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Presented by USA TODAY, City-wide Rosters to Include Thousands of America's Most Influential Doctors by Disease Specialty and Location

SANTA FE, N.M., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Qforma, an advanced analytics and predictive modeling company, is launching a new quarterly health feature called "Most Influential Doctors," or MID, presented by USA TODAY. The first-of-its-kind online database provides consumers with access to valuable healthcare information that's been unavailable to the general public until now.

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The initial MID rosters will include the top three-to-five physicians in virtually every metropolitan area in the U.S. who treat people with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and asthma -- all prevalent, chronic conditions requiring lifelong management and physician care. The MID database is included in a USA TODAY cover story, and additional editorial content will follow. The database is available at www.influentialdoctors.usatoday.com. Here, consumers will be able to freely search for local physicians whom other medical experts seek out for insight on new therapies, practice guidelines and approaches in medicine.

The Qforma MID, presented by USA TODAY, is built on Qforma's advanced analytic capabilities. Qforma's proprietary technology -- developed by some of the country's top physicists, scientists and mathematicians -- recognizes patterns in human interactions and reveals the most influential physicians in a given disease state or condition by geographic location. As opposed to using subjective surveys or o
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