Data Mining

The State of Mississippi’s Medicaid division is looking to integrate claims and clinical data from various health information exchanges, and will be using a product from the Emeryville, Calif.-based performance management software vendor, MedeAnalytics to do so.

Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) and the Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of interoperability technology that enables care coordination and health information exchange (HIE), have announced they have successfully transmitted immunizations through the ICA CareAlign HIE platform from the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, a federally qualified health center, to the Kansas Immunization Registry, KSWebIZ.

As many healthcare organizations are in the preliminary stages of their big data initiatives, the next frontier—which involves surveillance and predictive analytics—is littered with more questions and challenges.

A review of the available evidence underscores the safety of the federal childhood immunization schedule, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. However, the report offers a framework for conducting safety research using existing or new data collection systems. should signals indicate the need for investigation of the schedule.

According to a report produced by a Loma Linda University Medical Center researcher, and posted on the Annals of Emergency Medicine website, a number of intubated emergency patients within a federal database were listed as both dead and alive. The report calls into the data quality of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), which is produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.