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Early data suggests steep declines in all healthcare services, except telehealth

Mary Jo Condon, MPPA
May 11, 2020
Analytics and Reporting, Technology
Early data on healthcare utilization during COVID-19 pandemic suggest dramatic reductions in the use of nearly all healthcare services and steep increases in telemedicine. Consumer spending on health care fell 18% in the first three months of the year, according to the Commerce Department’s first-quarter GDP estimate. The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission shared information last...Read more

Inconsistent Data Sets: A Summary of the ETL Normalization of CMS Quality Data

Freedman HealthCare Staff
January 14, 2020
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality, Technology
This series has explored Freedman Analytical Engine (FAE)’s purpose and process. More specifically, we have looked at the problems that FAE solves, the need for standardized data in order to complete analysis, and the involvement of programmers and analysts in completing this ETL process. We have described ways in which file structures are identified and...Read more

Inconsistent Data Sets: Normalizing CMS Quality Data Files for Analysis

Freedman HealthCare Staff
November 1, 2019
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality, Technology
In the last post, we discussed the five file formats encountered by Freedman Analytical Engine (FAE) as it processes Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality data. They require FAE to standardize these files to create one merged CSV. This merged file will most closely resemble a Vertical ID file. This post will focus...Read more

Inconsistent Data Sets: The Five CMS Quality Data File Structures

Freedman HealthCare Staff
October 17, 2019
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality, Technology
In the last blog post we discussed augmenting the ETL process for CMS quality data. Freedman Analytical Engine (FAE) starts with this quality data, which does not have a consistent structure, and normalizes the column headers and measure identifiers, merging it into one CSV for analysis. To normalize these varying formats, the different file structures...Read more

Inconsistent Data Sets: Augmentation of the ETL Process for CMS Quality Data

Freedman HealthCare Staff
October 3, 2019
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality, Technology
When something occurs automatically, the computer completes a task from start to finish. In an augmented task, the computer helps the person to complete the task, but needs some form of interaction or input from the user. Previously, we explained how Freedman Analytical Engine (FAE) uses metadata dictionaries to convert column headers and measure identifiers...Read more

Inconsistent Data Sets: The Use of Dictionaries for CMS Quality Data ETL

Freedman HealthCare Staff
August 26, 2019
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality, Technology
In the previous blog post, I explained the general ETL process for CMS quality data. Analysis of quality data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), just like all payer claims data, population health management data, and other data sources, requires the data to be extracted, transformed, and loaded. The majority of this...Read more
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