healthcare Risk Management

Unit 2 Assignment Introduction Script:

This week’s focus is measuring quality. Adequate benchmarking data enables healthcare organizations to compare their performance to local and national competitors.

For the second Assignment, you will imagine that you are the Director of Risk Management at a new physician owned hospital and apply your knowledge gained from the Unit 2 Reading.

Directors of Risk Management have a clear understanding of risk adjusting and benchmarking data.

What is risk adjustment and benchmarking of outcome data? Data requirements and risk-adjustment techniques for comparing health outcomes across providers and/or over time.

How is risk-adjusted data used?

To determine outcome differences between hospitals can be due to a wide variety of factors.

To determine whether patient-level data is more suited as proxies for case mix/complexity across hospitals than for risk adjustment

You will summarize your thoughts using the Assignment directions. Be sure to also review the rubric for this Assignment.