HealthCare Analytics

[former_member203586]

I am trying to locate or assmble a list of common Health Care analytics / metrics that turn out to be indicators of medical outcomes. I was hoping some may post there thoughts on this here.

[Claudius · Accepted solution]

Hi Daniel,

welcome to the Healthcare forum! Do you have a specific use case, level (e.g. national, specific provider etc.), or even employee role in mind, for which you'd like to collect such KPI's?

From my perspective many national healthcare systems as well as healthcare provider organizations have created a set of quality indicators, which are intended to describe medical outcome. Many of these are also published, so that may be a good start for your list?

Regards

Claudius

[former_member203586]

Claudius

Thanks for the reply. personally I work for a nationwide workers compensation insurance company. so basically I am looking at common workplace injuries. you mentioned "Many of these are also published" being new to medical data and the medical industry itself I am not familliar with where to access these publications so if you had a pointer on where to look I think I could take it from there.

Daniel

[Claudius]

Daniel,

I guess I would start a search in the internet, e.g. if you're looking for "common workplace injuries" you'll get a lot of good resources, e.g. [http://www.workers-comp-news.com/common_injuries.php|http://www.workers-comp-news.com/common_injuries.php]. Same with medical outcome indicators, or quality measurement in general - lot's of material exist. Again, depending on the region (US?) and level of information you're interested in, you may want to start with some government or ministry of health web sites, or maybe private foundation web sites like [http://www.commonwealthfund.org/|http://www.commonwealthfund.org/].

Regards

Claudius