Archives By Month: July 2016
The Medicare Monster, A cautionary tale-Part III
A cautionary tale-Part III The deliberations about the cost of the hospital-insurance program make for a fascinating and almost comical story. Because it is hard to predict changes in medical technology and hospital costs, it was decided that the program could only be projected out 25 years, instead of the 75-year horizon that is used […]
Data Is Difficult to Measure Part V
Healthcare Data Will Only Get More Complex Dan LeSueur Vice President of Client and Technical Operations Posted in Data: Quality, Management, Governance and Data Warehouse / EDW Healthcare data will not get simpler in the future. If anything, this list will grow. Healthcare faces unique challenges and with that comes unique data challenges. Because healthcare data is so […]
The Medicare Monster Continued
A cautionary tale-Part II The deliberations about the cost of the hospital-insurance program make for a fascinating and almost comical story. Because it is hard to predict changes in medical technology and hospital costs, it was decided that the program could only be projected out 25 years, instead of the 75-year horizon that is used […]