This summer has seen one spectacular new release of healthcare provider data from CarePrecise already, and a second is on the way. The first one, released just a week ago, is already finding its way into EMR pre-population, new web apps, OpenPayments and HIE applications.
The Extended Professional, Group & Hospital(TM) dataset extends CarePrecise's flagship master database, CarePrecise Access Complete (CPAC), with verified group practice data for physicians and other providers, their hospital affiliations, medical schools and graduation years. The EPGH's Extended Hospital table provides an unduplicated list of all U.S. acute care, VA, children's and critical access hospitals that bill Medicare (essentially all of these hospital types bill Medicare, so this list is nearly complete; link it to hospital data in the CPAC, and you've got everything -- a more complete, up-to-date and verified database of physicians than the American Medical Association's list at a small fraction of the cost... plus more than 3 million other healthcare providers not included in the AMA data.
The EPGH has only been released in beta so far, and in beta it is being distributed to all current CPAC subscribers free of charge through September 2013. The EPGH/CPAC bundle is the only commercially available merged database of NPPES, LEIE, PECOS, PhysicianCompare and HospitalCompare data, and it contains all of the "hooks" necessary to link to CMS hospital quality data and forthcoming physician quality data.
Coming next is the beta release of CP ProCase(TM), a proper-case version of the name, mailing address and practice address in CPAC, for all approximately 4 million records. Using CPAC data for marketing and other communications will be easier and more professional looking. As with the EPGH dataset, the ProCase add-on will be available bundled with CPAC, and not separately.
Planned beta release of CP ProCase will coincide with the August 2013 CPAC update release. As with EPGH, ProCase will be distributed as a free beta for evaluation to all current CPAC subscribers. (Betas are not available on single download purchasers.)
And, as if that weren't enough, our popular software, CP ListMaker, is undergoing a rebuild to add EPGH functionality. (Proper casing is already a feature of CP ListMaker.) The new version -- 4.01 -- will sport new output queries that include the new extended data linked to list outputs, completely configurable to use the new information. Release date for CP ListMaker v4.01 is scheduled to coincide with the August CPAC data release.
Questions about the new products? Call your CarePrecise sales representative at (877) 782-2294.
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July 25, 2013
July 19, 2013
New data on Physicians, Groups and Hospitals
We are delighted to announce that our new Extended Physician, Group and Hospital (EPGH) dataset is in beta release, and is available for CarePrecise subscribers to download. The new data adds rich physician information, including verified hospital and group affiliations and education data, to the popular CarePrecise Access Complete database of U.S. healthcare providers.
Practice groups and hospitals, as well as physicians and other professionals are all inter-linked within the vast relational database representing nearly 4 million healthcare providers in all. But the data is made accessible by CarePrecise's unique compression and record-linkage processing, so that it can be used in popular desktop database software, such as Microsoft Access and FileMaker.
The combined CPAC/EPGH database offers a 360-degree view of U.S. healthcare providers' data, and assimilates in a single database the information contained in the federal NPI database (NPPES), the Medicare database (PECOS), the federal excluded provider database (LEIE), Hospital Compare and Physician Compare databases. It is the only comprehensive source of this data in a single database environment, and it can be used on ordinary laptop and desktop computers with ordinary office database software.
The new EPGH dataset is not available separately, but as an add-on to the CarePrecise Access Complete (CPAC) database of all HIPAA-covered U.S. healthcare providers. Currently in beta release, the EPGH add-on is now available only to current quarterly and monthly subscribers to the CPAC product, pending the full release scheduled for this fall.
To review the fields in the new dataset, see the field list table on the CarePrecise Access Complete documentation page. Standard pricing of CarePrecise data products provides a single-user license; multi-user licenses and derivative product (limited publication) licenses are also available. Contact CarePrecise Sales at (877) 782-2294.
Practice groups and hospitals, as well as physicians and other professionals are all inter-linked within the vast relational database representing nearly 4 million healthcare providers in all. But the data is made accessible by CarePrecise's unique compression and record-linkage processing, so that it can be used in popular desktop database software, such as Microsoft Access and FileMaker.
The combined CPAC/EPGH database offers a 360-degree view of U.S. healthcare providers' data, and assimilates in a single database the information contained in the federal NPI database (NPPES), the Medicare database (PECOS), the federal excluded provider database (LEIE), Hospital Compare and Physician Compare databases. It is the only comprehensive source of this data in a single database environment, and it can be used on ordinary laptop and desktop computers with ordinary office database software.
The new EPGH dataset is not available separately, but as an add-on to the CarePrecise Access Complete (CPAC) database of all HIPAA-covered U.S. healthcare providers. Currently in beta release, the EPGH add-on is now available only to current quarterly and monthly subscribers to the CPAC product, pending the full release scheduled for this fall.
To review the fields in the new dataset, see the field list table on the CarePrecise Access Complete documentation page. Standard pricing of CarePrecise data products provides a single-user license; multi-user licenses and derivative product (limited publication) licenses are also available. Contact CarePrecise Sales at (877) 782-2294.
March 28, 2012
5,000th Application Milestone
In April, 2012, CarePrecise will celebrate having built and released our 5,000th database application and version release! Actually, we will have released 5,049 (and maybe more) separate software applications, including state-by-state NPIdentify Desktop apps, CarePrecise Access sets, customized CarePrecise Select sets, CP ListMaker version upgrades, custom applications, and specialized MEDICAlistings marketing lists. In all, we will have distributed software and datasets representing nearly a terabyte of data and code since 2008. We're a privately held company and we don't release financials or our exact number of users, but we can say that it's between 500 and 1,000. And we love every single one!
March 7, 2012
Hospital Spending To Grow
A new survey conducted by L.E.K. Consulting indicates a predicted rise in spending and aggressive supplier negotiations by hospitals during 2012. The study, which surveyed 200+ hospital executives, found that 61% expect budgets to grow through the year, in such areas as healthcare I.T. (57%), facilities and major medical devices (35%), and many expect growth in infection-fighting disposables. In fact, budgets are expected to rise through the coming five year period.
But the study also revealed that hospitals can be expected to drive ever harder bargains for their purchasing. Eighty percent stated that they will continue or step up pressure on suppliers to cut costs, while the number that anticipate greater use of purchasing organizations grew from 52% to 62% over last year.
The investigators cited the Affordable Care Act as a driver for the increase in hospital spending. CarePrecise healthcare provider data contains 31,270 hospital records as of February 29, 2012, representing 5,755 hospitals with 942,000 beds and total 2011 expenditures of $751 billion.
But the study also revealed that hospitals can be expected to drive ever harder bargains for their purchasing. Eighty percent stated that they will continue or step up pressure on suppliers to cut costs, while the number that anticipate greater use of purchasing organizations grew from 52% to 62% over last year.
The investigators cited the Affordable Care Act as a driver for the increase in hospital spending. CarePrecise healthcare provider data contains 31,270 hospital records as of February 29, 2012, representing 5,755 hospitals with 942,000 beds and total 2011 expenditures of $751 billion.
June 28, 2011
New Way to Market to Healthcare Providers
The international PR firm Ogilvy has just released a study prescribing a shift in healthcare marketing from the exploitation of clinical breakthroughs to something Ogilvy calls "sustainability." They're not talking about the sort of sustainability we in healthcare usually mean, such as the sustainability of a health information exchange's business model. Instead, they're suggesting that we start selling green.
Companies with strong environmental competencies will rule the market in the coming years, say the investigators, Jeff Chertack and Monique da Silva. In an op-ed by Chertack, he says that "[the new] value will be delivered by new healthcare products and delivery systems that help society adapt to and thrive in changing climate and disease patterns."
CarePrecise Technology made a move in the past year toward eliminating a large part of its carbon footprint by shifting even our largest file deliveries from physical (DVD disks) to virtual. All new product sales are now 100% virtual, and as subscribers renew, their deliveries will be virtual as well. Not only has the shift reduced fuel and materials consumption, but products are now delivered in less than half the time. In a business where the freshness of data is crucial, every hour counts. CarePrecise's NPI directory unit, NPIdentify, has produced state NPI directories in electronic form only since 2007.
CarePrecise's data center is a shared environment, utilizing hyper-efficient cloud computing resources. Except for certain mission-critical operations performed on in-building platforms, all front-end operations and many back-office computing tasks have been moved to the cloud, dramatically reducing office space utilization and fuel consumption.
Whether the healthcare industry in specific, and the broader business community in general, will effectively turn environmental competencies into profits is still an open question. Certainly, entities like hospitals make huge impacts and consume enormous resources (think about all those disposables and all those sheets washed after 30 minutes of use, pillows, trays and pitchers discarded after each patient...), and spectacular improvements could be made. Vendors who help these organizations green up are offering a new way to compete for patients. The competitive advantage offered by corporate carbon consciousness could be tomorrow's marketing edge for providers and their vendors.
Companies with strong environmental competencies will rule the market in the coming years, say the investigators, Jeff Chertack and Monique da Silva. In an op-ed by Chertack, he says that "[the new] value will be delivered by new healthcare products and delivery systems that help society adapt to and thrive in changing climate and disease patterns."
CarePrecise Technology made a move in the past year toward eliminating a large part of its carbon footprint by shifting even our largest file deliveries from physical (DVD disks) to virtual. All new product sales are now 100% virtual, and as subscribers renew, their deliveries will be virtual as well. Not only has the shift reduced fuel and materials consumption, but products are now delivered in less than half the time. In a business where the freshness of data is crucial, every hour counts. CarePrecise's NPI directory unit, NPIdentify, has produced state NPI directories in electronic form only since 2007.
CarePrecise's data center is a shared environment, utilizing hyper-efficient cloud computing resources. Except for certain mission-critical operations performed on in-building platforms, all front-end operations and many back-office computing tasks have been moved to the cloud, dramatically reducing office space utilization and fuel consumption.
Whether the healthcare industry in specific, and the broader business community in general, will effectively turn environmental competencies into profits is still an open question. Certainly, entities like hospitals make huge impacts and consume enormous resources (think about all those disposables and all those sheets washed after 30 minutes of use, pillows, trays and pitchers discarded after each patient...), and spectacular improvements could be made. Vendors who help these organizations green up are offering a new way to compete for patients. The competitive advantage offered by corporate carbon consciousness could be tomorrow's marketing edge for providers and their vendors.
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