2015

A pause in the availability of risk adjusted national benchmarks for AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators & an alternative measurement

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Webinar File
NAHDO Webinar 8 11 2016 final 2.pdf

Hospitals, health review organizations, and others user the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) and other measures to monitor and help improve the quality of hospital care. These users may be aware that the ability to create national benchmarks for the PSIs requires 12 months of data. For this reason, while use of the PSIs are suitable for use on monitoring individual hospital use (e.g.

Improving Public Health Data Dissemination through Policy and Tools

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Webinar File
Barbara Rudolph, Ph.D., MSSW-NAHDO Data Standards and Research Consultant
Dr. Linette Scott, Chief Medical Information Officer and the Deputy Director of Information Management Division, CA DHCS
Joshua Borton, Survey Statistician, National Opinion Research Center (NORC)

Public health data bases contain information essential to improving population health and informing policy. Public health officials take seriously their charge to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the individuals in these data, yet, at the same time, unleash the power of the data to improve health and health care. Balancing these dual responsibilities is an ongoing challenge, especially with technological advancements, the need for timely, actionable data, and society’s heightened concerns with privacy.

NAHDO Webinar: Data sharing applications and geo coding solutions

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NAHDO Webinar: Data sharing applications and geo coding solutions
October 8th 2015 - 12:00 - 1:00 PM MST

Precise geocoding of hospitalization and emergency department (ED) discharge data can be used to reduce errors in linkages and improve the quality of the linked databases, provide greater analytic applications at the census tract level for surveillance activities, allow for market share analysis and provide greater understanding of the health of a community. Presentations from two projects that have used geo-coded discharge databases highlighted the importance of collaborating for success, technical approaches, findings and implications. Professor Ge Lin from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Community Health Sciences will discussed his geo coding project with Nebraska Hospital Discharge data and the process for developing and evaluating a master address index.

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