Healthcare Data Analytics

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• Improve patient care. The increased detail in the coding system will improve the measurement

of quality, safety, and efficacy of care, which will u ltimately lea d to improved patient care.

• Determine the severity of illness and prove medical necessity. ICD-10 codes are more granular

and provide option to input th e level of sickness along with complexity of disease of a patient

in a code-based system.

• Improve research. The b etter and more accurate organization of code will be a ble to more

precisely classify diseases and injuries, and correlate them with the cause, treatm ent, and out-

come. The collected data will be less ambiguous and such a be tter-defined structure of the

informa tion will make data ...