Dr. Pine Featured Speaker at World Congress Health Leadership Summit • Article • 12.14.09

Dr. Pine will deliver a presentation titled “Building a Cost-Effective Data and Analytic Infrastructure for Healthcare Performance Monitoring and Payment Reform”. Attendees will:

  • Learn why traditional databases and analytic tools are inadequate to support cost-effective monitoring of clinical performance for public reporting, pay-for performance programs, and quality improvement initiatives.
  • Hear about how hybrid databases that combine claims data, present-on-admission modifiers and numerical laboratory data can support accurate assessments of risk-adjusted clinical performance.

MPA POA coding screens published in AHIMA research journal • Article • 10.26.09

MPA’s cost-effective and powerful method of evaluating the coding quality of enhanced claims data was published in an article titled Screening algorithms to assess the accuracy of present-on-admission coding in the Winter 2009 issue of Perspectives in Health Information Management.

Currently, there is wide variability in the accuracy and consistency of POA coding across hospitals. Inaccurate coding can distort analyses of risk-adjusted outcomes and determinations of hospital reimbursement. More»

Dr. Pine to Lead Session at 24th Annual NAHDO Meeting • Article • 08.26.09

Dr. Michael Pine will moderate a panel discussion titled “How to build multi-purpose/hybrid datasets upon existing data”. Panel participants will include Michael T. Lundberg (Virginia Health Information), Mari Tietze (Texas Tech University Health Science Center), and Christine Cox (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The session will cover:

  • Hybrid data sets focusing on the results of the AHRQ pilots,
  • Merging health data sets from multiple sources in the absence of a single…
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MPA Published in H&HN • Article • 08.17.09

In an article entitled Neverland, Dr. Fry and Dr. Pine discuss problems with “Never Events” policies and how MPA builds a healthcare warranty that rewards quality and economic stewardship.

MPA Published in The American Journal of Surgery • Article • 05.01.09

MPA’s innovative technique to objectively identify complications of clinical care was published in an article titled Adverse outcomes in surgery: redefinition of postoperative complications in the April 2009 issue of The American Journal of Surgery.