In a previous post, I described how to format typical physician productivity data to enable further analyses, finding useful insight. I dig deeper to find more actionable insights in this post. Refresher: we had office visit data for 3 doctors over 2 month period; we added RVUs to the office visit procedure codes; we added … Continue reading Confessions of health data -2
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Confessions of health data – 1
This is the first in a series of posts to illustrate analytic methods of getting insights out of healthcare data: Please download the companion workbook here. Context: Medical practice managers are often requested to track physician productivity, whether against targets or identify areas of improvements, for example through practice dashboards. Below is an example of how … Continue reading Confessions of health data – 1
Types of healthcare data – Procedure code
This is the second post in a series in which I describe the common types of healthcare data you will come across, namely, diagnoses, procedures, demographic, drug, laboratory result data, clinical notes and financial data. In this previous post, I described diagnose. Here, I describe procedures codes. Procedure codes serve two primary purposes, clinical record … Continue reading Types of healthcare data – Procedure code
Types of healthcare data – Diagnoses/ICDs
In my previous post, I described the common sources of healthcare data. Here, I describe the common types of healthcare data you will come across, namely, diagnoses, procedures, demographic, drug, laboratory result data, clinical notes and financial data. Diagnoses/ICDs Diagnoses record the medical problem that a patient has, e.g. diabetes, headache, cancer. They explain why … Continue reading Types of healthcare data – Diagnoses/ICDs
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