Question

A) Do you think the determination of episode groupers by data analytics might potentially lead to systematic discrimination among different patient groups and widen existing health disparities in the U.S. by race and income?

B) What are some of the ethical challenges of health outcomes analytics?

C) In what ways can health outcomes analytics help health care providers improve their performance?

Answer 1

Abstract

The United States spends more money on healthcare than any other country in the world.

This high rate of spending, however, has not resulted in better health for Americans.

Episode-based performance measurement is one approach to better understanding of the utilization and costs associated with certain conditions by grouping care into condition-specific or procedure-specific episodes.

For example, all diabetes-related care is grouped into a diabetes episode of care.

A) Do you think the determination of episode groupers by data analytics might potentially lead to systematic discrimination among different patient groups and widen existing health disparities in the U.S. by race and income?

Yes it is correct because, Episode grouper software products developed by different vendors use significantly different methods to group and attribute claims to episodes.

B) What are some of the ethical challenges of health outcomes analytics?

Ethical and legal challenges include the risk to compromise privacy, personal autonomy, and the solidarity-based approach to healthcare funding, as well as effects on public demand for transparency, trust, and fairness while using big data.

Further it can be liested as data heterogeneity, data protection, analytical flows in analysing data, and the lack of appropriate infrastructures for data storage as critical technical and infrastructural issues are also some of the major ethical challenges of health outcome analysitcs.

The major ethical issues in Health outcome analytics can be described as below :

(1) Patients' Rights

(2) Equity of resources

(3) Confidentiality of the patients

(4) Patient Safety

(5) Conflict of Interests

(6) Ethics of privatization

(7) Informed Consent

(8) Dealing with the opposite sex,

C) In what ways can health outcomes analytics help health care providers improve their performance?

Ongoing health care analytics can help identify large patterns that lead to a greater understanding of population health.

A system of interconnected electronic health records available to physicians helps provide detailed information that can help cut costs by reducing unnecessary care.

Healthcare companies can cut down on healthcare cost and provide better care with the help of outcomes analytics.