Abstract
In recent years, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published 439 datasets containing rich information on healthcare providers, Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), Shared Patient Patterns ('referral data'), Medicare Utilization and Payments, etc. Combining these data can provide stakeholders a broader and more synergistic vision of the healthcare market. But the data integration is challenging, as the mapping between several CMS datasets was missing. In this paper, we proposed integration solutions for combining referral data with ACO, Hospital Compare, and physician-hospital affiliation data. Extending referral analysis to these new dimensions could provide more analytics insights to facilitate the decision-making processes of users including physicians, hospitals and government agencies.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2017 |
| Editors | Mollie Cummins, Julio Facelli, Gerrit Meixner, Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Hiroshi Nakajima |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 357-361 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509048816 |
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| State | Published - Sep 8 2017 |
| Event | 5th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2017 - Park City, United States Duration: Aug 23 2017 → Aug 26 2017 |
Other
| Other | 5th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2017 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Park City |
| Period | 8/23/17 → 8/26/17 |
Keywords
- CMS open data
- Data integration
- Finding splitters
- Referral network
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Informatics