The below articles are all published in BC advantage
Magazine and written and contributed by Kathy
Terry
Kathy Terry Senior Director
at IPRO
Healthcare Public Reporting for the Consumer
Public reporting is, for all purposes, a social sciences undertaking. A consumer-oriented report on healthcare is intended to empower healthcare consumers; educate them on variability, choice and quality; and sell them on the fact that they can impa...
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Data-Driven Websites: Feature on a Newcomer
Healthcare data transparency is becoming a thriving medium of information exchange between patients and caregivers. It is likely an industry that will grow even larger as time goes on, due in part to the current administration but also attributed to ...
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Why Not the Best: A Health Care Quality Improvement Resource
Where does your hospital stand on key measures of healthcare quality? Do you know if you rank among the top 1% of performers for a given quality measure? If you don't know, it's time to find out since this is now publicly available data.
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Medical versus Surgical DRGs: Problems with inpatient stays?
Hospitals monitoring for potentially unnecessary admissions recently obtained another tool to hone in on problematic areas. This new tool is a data report that can help hospital staff dig deeper into one-day stays. As evidenced by a recent discussion...
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Are You Billing the Most Appropriate Setting?
There's no denying that payment errors are costly to providers and when those errors are multiplied by thousands of incidents we're talking about serious money. Kim Hrehor, MHA, RHIA, FACHE and Kathy Terry, PhD have written this article for BC Advant...
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Federal Data: Using it to Target Hospital Payment Errors
In 1999, Congress initiated a program through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, designed to protect the Medicare Trust Fund by measuring the incidence of payment errors ...
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