What are the national patterns of health care delivery in hospital-based 设置?

挑战

The National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS) is tracking the latest trends affecting hospitals and health care organizations. It tracks factors that influence:

• Use of health care resources
• 保健服务的质量
• Disparities in health care services provided to population subgroups in the U.S.

趣赢平台 operated the survey for the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), 医院招聘, 收集数据, 过程ing and harmonizing data, and constructing patient IDs that can track encounters across years.

解决方案

趣赢平台 recruited 200+ hospitals to send all inpatient and emergency department data. We implemented methods to receive, 过程, and harmonize data from multiple sources and formats: UB-04 billing data, state-based billing standards, HL7版本3文档, and custom extracts from hospital electronic health record (EHR) systems. We also developed a highly scalable data pipeline to test, 验证, and extract data from HL7版本3文档.

趣赢平台 developed and used a natural language 过程ing (NLP) technique to synthesize provider mentions from 35,500,已收集的000名付款人姓名.

我们也:

• Provided preliminary datasets to respond to the need for rapid data during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Supported efforts to 验证 algorithms to identify opioid involvement

结果

More than 81 million records have been 过程ed, harmonized, and delivered.

Data gathered will help provide accurate and reliable health care statistics that answer key questions of interest to health care and public health professionals, 研究人员, and health care policymakers.

These data will contribute to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 服务 Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Emergency Department Surveillance System (SEDSS).

Data will provide statistics on the nation’s opioid epidemic as well as other prescription and illicit drug use and abuse.