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Solving the Documentation Puzzle with Data Analytics
Author: Monga, Kapila
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: August 17, 2016
“It’s a beautiful day to save lives. Let’s have some fun,” so says Dr. Derek Shepherd (of “Grey’s Anatomy” fame) and with a smile on his face, gets on with his day’s activities—to help patients heal. I haven’t seen many doctors work, except in “Grey’s Anatomy,” but I have interacted w....
Applying Predictive Analytics: The Role of Artificial Neural Networks in Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease
Author: Monga, Kapila
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: December 22, 2016
The phrase “Longevity Revolution,” referring to the increase in human life expectancy by 30 years, isn’t new anymore. Various books have been written on this subject, and it is a widely discussed topic in conferences these days. It is a no-brainer that this increase in life expectancy warr....
Leveraging Analytics to Reduce Readmissions
Author: Monga, Kapila
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: May 19, 2016
Hospital readmissions cost significant money to our healthcare system every year. According to a report from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the total cost of the 3.3 million adult 30-day all-cause readmissions in the US was $41.3....
Making Health Data Elegant
Author: Moschel, Matthew
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Too often, data analysts make life difficult for themselves. An analyst may produce code that is much longer and more complicated than it needs to be, causing a coworker to re-run code for several hours, not including the execute time. Why? These challenges stem from three root sources of....
Collaborating for Compliance: CMS' Hospital Payment Monitoring Program and Pepper Reports
Author: Orenstein, Anita; Newton, Kathy
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 21, 2005
Introduction
Hospitals throughout the country are being provided with the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPER) to review and take appropriate action. These reports are being sent to hospitals to assist them with identifying possible areas where improvements might....
Informatics and HIM: Enabling Semantic Interoperability and the Learning Health System
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2015
Medical informatics is a field formalized in the 1990s with the rise of the adoption of information technology in healthcare including electronic health records systems (EHRs), laboratory information management systems (LIMS), radiology systems, and other health information technology (HIT....
Examining the Computation of the Chi-square Statistical Test
Author: Overgaard, Shauna M
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: October 2015
Outcome measures such as patient satisfaction, rates of readmission, and procedural complications play heavily into the penalization of an organization’s financial reimbursement.
It is important to evaluate data on multiple levels in order to consider all opportunities for in....
Measurement Brings Meaning to Population Health
Author: Overgaard, Shauna M; Dooling, Julie A
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: August 27, 2015
Healthcare payments are shifting and the industry is in a rapid state of change. Efficiencies to render patient care as a top priority are crucial. Measuring brings efficiencies and meaning to a patient population.
High-Level Measurements
Population-based statistics....
Improving Patient Care Through Data Quality Management of Regulatory Reporting of Outcome Measures
Author: Panico, Mary; Hall, Debra; Berman, Regina; Siegel, Barbara
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
In the fourth quarter of 2002, regulatory agencies began to align their initiatives driven by the National Quality Forum (NQF) evidenced-based measures, which drove the CMS 7 th Scope of Work. Project designs were to address morbidity and mortality of high-risk and high-vari....
Framework for Designing a Healthcare Outcome Data Warehouse
Author: Parmanto, Bambang; Scotch, Michael; Ahmad, Sjarif
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: September 2005
Abstract
Many healthcare processes involve a series of patient visits or a series of outcomes. The modeling of outcomes associated with these types of healthcare processes is different from and not as well understood as the modeling of standard industry environments. For this re....
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