Health care consolidation is sweeping through US health care like a firestorm. In particular, there has been a rapid increase in the vertical integration of hospitals, physicians, and providers of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about tax and budget policy and sometimes data. Now, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) has built a sort-of tax Moog with ...

In multiple policy areas, there is immense potential for all levels of government to harness the power of data to maximize the impact of taxpayer dollars and improve services for the public. Much of ...

Several barriers continue to impede the transition to value-based payment, particularly administrative and clinical data connectivity, transparency of quality metrics and quality measures, and ...

Code sensitivity was determined by identifying a cohort of men with histologically confirmed prostate cancer in the Ontario Cancer Registry and linking them to the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) ...

Validity assessments revealed that 2 algorithms utilizing administrative claims data and electronic medical records were accurate at identifying moderate and severe events signaling acute exacerbation ...

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, scarcity is the order of the day. Exponential growth may stress hospitals, testing laboratories, and medical supply chains to their limits. One way of reducing ...

Linked cancer registry and medical claims data have increased the capacity for cancer research. However, few efforts have described methods to select information between data sources, which may affect ...