Although I believe you can never have “enough quality,” health systems that report outcomes to various agencies have much duplication and extreme amounts of manual abstraction of records. I was fortunate to have my eyes opened on a special project I worked on several years ago in Ohio to help a health system get their arms around data within their…
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With all the discussion of the CMS value-based purchasing initiatives, many in our industry still don’t see how this relates to the tasks of rehabilitating patients and improving functional abilities. The value of improving a patient’s ability to brush his teeth or dress her lower body is different for each patient and thought to be as the ad says, “priceless.”…
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