NHSI HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

NHSI’ Data Management service enables organizations to better manage and utilize their information in a HIPAA compliant manner. In today’s healthcare environment, success lies in the reliability and manageability of data. Efficiencies created by front-end applications for an information system are directly related to the quality of data being accessed from the back-end.

Clean, standardized data produces successful outcomes at all levels of an organization’s daily operations- health plan participants accessing network providers; cost-effective claims processing; and quality business-to-business transactions, as well as, business-to-consumer services. The long-term benefits include dramatic cost-saving and considerable time efficiencies.

Data management is a significant challenge for organizations that have not made sizeable financial investments in emerging technologies or in a staff to maintain these systems. NHSI delivers the expertise and resources for full service, outsourced data management that allows our clients to focus instead on expanding their business opportunities. NHSI data management team has optimized techniques for lightning fast operation, while yielding a high degree of accuracy. NHSI will adhere to all current and future data standards including HIPAA and other industry accepted methodologies.

Data Collection and Transformation

NHSI has the requisite experience, flexibility and security to accept and deliver data of various formats via secure transmission methods. Client data is reformatted from its unstructured or uniquely structured input to a standardized format. During the transformation process, records are parsed in order to isolate and identify individual data elements. These elements are assigned meaning and placed in their appropriate field in order to begin data scrubbing. (i.e. The transformation may separate the contact data "Smith, John" into a first name field and a last name field.)

Data Scrubbing

Data scrubbing extends the transformation process by allowing missing or incorrect data to be tagged for modification. Client’s data undergoes multiple, logical routines unique to each record layout. These routines utilize fixed alphanumeric orders; specific rule implementations; and pattern matching to standardize data. Improving the uniformity of data to the level of individual elements within each field, particularly for addresses, is important for allocating geo-codes and duplicate record elimination. (i.e. The termination date of "Jan. 07, 00" would be modified to a 01/07/2000 pattern.)

Geocoding

Each record receives a latitude/ longitude code assignment for its exact street location once the address fields are uniform and the output is amended using CASS Certified software. This software enables address information to be validated against national and regional reference directories that can frequently improve data through the introduction of missing or incorrect address components.

Duplicate Elimination

The final procedure of our basic data management service involves the querying of output from the prior processes to identify duplicate records. These records are examined for distinction from one another, and the duplicate records eliminated.

Secure Data Warehousing

NHSI has established a secure online channel and network infrastructure for the transfer, management and storage of sensitive data. Utilizing only those trusted and recognized brand technologies, NHSI incorporates multiple levels of the industry’s most powerful network security available including firewall protection, 128-bit SSL encryption technology, and Verisign Digital Security Certificates.