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A Tale of Two Kabacinskis
In the course of my work, I once met a senior enlisted Navy corpsman who provides healthcare HIPAA training throughout the USA. For the sake of privacy, let’s call him Carl Kabacinski. As we discussed healthcare IT problems, he was intrigued to learn more about how I detect clinical data mistakenly entered into the wrong…
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Schizophrenic Mother or Wrong Patient? Who is Right?
I drive Uber during breaks between contracts for health IT work. Recently, I picked up a younger Asian woman at a DC-area Metro station on a sunny afternoon. I’ll call her CJ — not her real name.After the usual pleasantries, we started talking about work. When I mentioned my job — detecting errant clinical data…
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Uncovering Hidden Errors: Delta Analysis in Health Data
By: Jim Hoover, Principal Investigator Accurate healthcare data is vital—from tracking disease trends to prescribing the right treatments. Even minor data errors can ripple into major patient safety issues. Avant Health Sciences recently conducted an error detection project to uncover wrong patient associations using a statistical technique called delta analysis, focusing initially on height and…