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Among the goals are reducing unnecessary testing, providing coaching, supporting peer-to-peer education and improving tools for patient communication.
What's needed is a commitment from management, clean data, support for stakeholders such as the emergency room, a good data warehouse infrastructure and a support team.
As healthcare providers collect more data on patients than ever, and plan to use it to predict care, healthcare needs to understand the ethical implications, according to experts speaking at the Predictive Analytics World Healthcare conference in Boston Tuesday.
Eight of 10 people surveyed by the Kaiser Family Foundation supported the government or insurers paying for planning discussions about the type of care patients preferred in the waning days or weeks of their lives.
As the programs delve into ever more sensitive areas -- mental health, finances, sleep habits and pregnancy -- advocates say existing privacy and anti-discrimination laws fall short.
The study from the Health Care Cost Institute found discrepancies within some of the 41 areas of the country it studied using its rare data trove-billing claims from three of the biggest commercial insurers.
They may be in the Big Easy, where the good times roll, but the people in charge of managing health data at hospitals across the country are focused on the hard work of realizing the most benefit they can from ICD-10.
Two hospital case studies presented during at the Predictive Analytics conference in Boston on Tuesday show how looking at data can save providers, physicians and patients both money and time.
Correctional facilities are responsible for providing health services to people who are jailed, but that doesn't mean that prisoners don't face financial charges for care. In most states they may be on the hook for copayments ranging from a few dollars to as much as $100 for medical care, according to a recent study.