HEDIS and Medicare Advantage Star Ratings both depend on evidence that often lives only in unstructured clinical text: discharge summaries, referral letters, physician progress notes. Structured claims data alone misses...
Twenty-six million adults in the United States have limited English proficiency, and half of them experienced a language barrier when dealing with a healthcare provider in the past three years...
A guide for healthcare data leaders navigating the gap between de-identification and provable compliance. If your organization handles clinical data, chances are you already have a de-identification pipeline in place....
DICOM de-identification is workflow-specific because PHI can appear in metadata tags, free-text metadata fields, burned-in image pixels, and encapsulated PDF content. A production pipeline may need to inspect tags, apply...