By Megan Schmidt – Healthcare is spending billions to modernize the future while ignoring one of its most expensive operational failures. Provider data, the foundational information that determines who gets paid, where patients receive care, and how networks function, remains inaccurate across much of the industry.
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By Renee Ralls – Poor data quality has become a critical issue for organizations, affecting the way they do business and their bottom lines. Gartner’s research on data quality found that in 2017, poor quality data had an annual average cost of $15 million.
By Paula Braun – All information captured on death certificates – such as race, gender, and marital status – matters. In my previous blog post, I wrote about the importance of the cause-of-death fields; however, every element of the certificate is important. Capturing the information timely and accurately is more than just an administrative requirement with public health benefits.