New-Wave Medical Quality Resources

Beyond Traditional Administrative Databases

Staff Reporters

ho-journal15Physician blogger, and Harvard University CTO, John Halamka MD recently opined about some emerging new medical quality data sources for the industry.

Traditional Sources

As all ME-P subscribers know, traditional data sources are derived from, and usually include, administrative claims data information aggregated from many sources and silos.

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Emerging Sources

But, newer sources of data for medical quality analysis go beyond administrative data and includes electronic repositories like eHRs, PHRs, eMRs and Healthcare Information Exchange [HIE] resources, where available.

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Assessment

For a few more examples:

Link: http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/02/index.html

Conclusion

And so, your thoughts and comments on this Medical Executive-Post, and original post, are appreciated.

Are these database silos secure, and do patients know that, or how, their hopefully blinded information is redacted and used?  Will the health insurance industry use this information to further “slice and dice” ratings levels for their insured’s? Will it then be securitized, re-aggregated and resold again for non-healthcare related purposes like home, auto or life insurance; or other yet to be developed risk-management products and services?

Is this transparent and fair to patients? What are the legal and ethical implications, if any? Thought leaders please opine?

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