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Article: Physician Profiling: Using Software to Refine the Art
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- Health Data Management
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Jennifer A. Gilbert
A health care organization's quality of care and costs largely can be traced back to the performance of individual physicians. Physician profiling software enables provider and payer organizations to keep a finger on the pulse of physician performance.
Getting a handle on how and with what resources physicians are treating patients enables organizations to identify patients who aren't getting enough care and to pinpoint opportunities for saving money.
Many physician profiling programs are sold as modules of broader practice management software packages that also include such administrative functions as billing, scheduling and ...