On adoption of Z-codes
Jessie Tenenbaum
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Exciting news in NC-
Decades of underfunding plus the stress of #COVID19 have put our behavioral health system in crisis.
Today @NC_Governor and @NCDHHS released a $1B roadmap to transform the system. https://www.ncdhhs.gov/media/19922/download?attachment
The push to streamline national public health data began long before Covid-19
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/health/public-health-data-gaps-hhs-khn-partner
"Predictive Analytics Tool Identifies Readmission Risk, Reduces Costs"
In a study, Corewell Health researchers described how predictive analytics helped the organization prevent 200 patient readmissions and drive $5 million in cost savings.
https://healthitanalytics.com/news/predictive-analytics-tool-identifies-readmission-risk-reduces-costs
#AI #healthcare
Predictive Analytics Tool Identifies Readmission Risk, Reduces Costs
Corewell Health care coordinators shared that a recent initiative, which uses predictive analytics to forecast risk and reduce readmissions, has kept 200 patients from being readmitted and resulted in a $5 million cost savings. These results, initially reported in a study published in NEJM...
I misread this headline and thought it was about *all* outcomes and not ALL, but sadly the other version may well be true too.
"Researchers find racial, ethnic disparities in ALL outcomes"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/leukemia/102920
Nice work- Leveraging Electronic Health Record Data for Timely Chronic Disease Surveillance: The Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS)-
except on death certificates- there we seem to have lots of country info- i know less about that, but trying to learn more.
@NoraGottlieb we don't :(
@[email protected] ideally TAKE that action, but it's federal government, so look for it in... 2033?
@NoraGottlieb YES! We're working on evaluating the data we collect in NC to understand how complete/reliable it is for 7 variables across ~15 key data sets. (race, ethnicity, preferred language, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex assigned at birth)
TBH I'd be nervous to collect immigration status- wouldn't want that info to be used inappropriately. (would be hard to collect for the same reason!)
TBH I'd be nervous to collect immigration status- wouldn't want that info to be used inappropriately. (would be hard to collect for the same reason!)