#WeLoveOutcomes

#WeLoveOutcomes

CMS Proposes Bundled Payments for Joint Replacements

Jul 10, 2015

5 Key Points from the Proposed CMS Changes Medicare spent more than $7 billion for hospitalizations alone last year on primary...

Meaningful Use and PQRS Measures: PROs Past, Present, & Future Role

Jun 3, 2015

Patient-reported outcome (PRO) data now plays a key role when it comes to Meaningful Use When the incentive first started back...

Adequate Pre-Op Education Proves to Substantially Improve Surgical Outcomes

May 26, 2015

Patient Education improves Outcomes A Gallup poll asked patients to rate their level of agreement with 3 statements related to...

Why CODE Technology Rocks at Collecting Outcomes

Feb 27, 2015

Clinical Outcomes Data and Engineering (CODE) Technology is passionate about collecting patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures...

Patient-Reported Outcome tool selection: 4 Things to Consider

Feb 26, 2015

So you are ready to start collecting PRO data… now you’ve got to make some key decisions- what PRO tools to use and at when to...

Meaningful Use and PRO Data

Feb 26, 2015

Once you’ve built a data-set with at least a year’s worth of data, you can start utilizing it to improve your practice, negotiate better insurance and managed-care contracts, and satisfy Meaningful Use requirements.

Collecting Outcome Data

Feb 26, 2015

Collecting surveys well is the foundation of a successful PRO program Once you know from whom you are going to collect data (the...

What are Patient Reported Outcomes?

Feb 26, 2015

Each PRO tool has a unique scoring system that quantifies the results as a single number (or several numbers, in some cases). PRO surveys are used to record patients’ functional status before a surgery/intervention, and then again at specific intervals after the surgery/intervention. Rather than using an x-ray or a range-of-motion test to determine the ‘success’ of an intervention, PRO’s ask the patient for his or her own perspective.