3 Aggregate Healthcare Reports for Healthcare Administrators/Executives in Ambulatory Care
Three aggregate healthcare reports for healthcare administrators/executives in ambulatory care organizations that can be analyzed as Balgrosky (2019) states across an entire population to better understand trends. According to Balgrosky (2019) trends can be seen in areas such as patient health status, treatment outcomes, cost ratios and financial performance, and a myriad of other useful analyses. For this post, we will look at three aggregate reports on pediatric patient access to health, proper documentation on vaccine administration for pediatric populations, and since I’m an Infection Preventionist, a report on communicable diseases by region.
Report one, pediatric patient access to health will look at a compilation of data from all clinics across an ambulatory care organization with respect to the number of visits per year. To start, it is important to define what pediatrics is. It is defined as all children, ages birth to seventeen years old. You will want to make sure you involve your coding team to make sure your report will draw the appropriate visit codes, and location of visit. This report can be used to evaluate statistically how well your organization is meeting the needs of your pediatric population. If you notice that you have a high percentage of kept appointment slots yet you are only reaching half your population, you might want to consider that you need to expand your pediatric access to care.
Report two, proper documentation on vaccine administration for pediatric population. This report will look at how staff document vaccine administration to make sure continuity of care for patients and the need for repeated doses are not needed, monitoring for missed opportunities, and if staff retraining is needed. According to Bell et al. (2020), they reported patient complaints of errors in documentation for vaccines such as the documentation was missing completely or the date the vaccine received was charted incorrectly. Additionally, a report like this can be used to monitor vaccine inventory to look for need to order and even to monitor for loss of inventory and loss of revenue.
Report three, report on communicable diseases by region can be used to track trends of disease that can be a risk to staff, patients, and the community. This report can alert the Infection Preventionist who can then alert the clinical team so they can be better prepared to protect themselves and their patients. Eventually, this type of report can be used to help prevent outbreaks or catch them before they expand. Although this post is for ambulatory care, this sort of report can be used to alert the local health department to potential outbreaks in the community as well.
References
Balgrosky, J. A. (2019). Understanding health information systems for the health professions. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Bell, S. K., Delbanco, T., Elmore, J. G., Fitzgerald, P. S., Fossa, A., Harcourt, K., ... & DesRoches, C. M. (2020). Frequency and types of patient-reported errors in electronic health record
