Provider Transparency in Rural Healthcare

Most rural healthcare organizations are sitting on significant amounts of provider performance data. 

Encounters, coding patterns, no-shows, schedule utilization, care gaps and quality measures all exist somewhere, often in the finance office or buried within the EHR. Yet the providers who have the greatest ability to influence those numbers frequently have limited visibility into them. 

Rural hospitals and clinics give providers a patient panel, a schedule and productivity expectations, but often keep the actual performance information within administration. The same blindness can apply to quality. Providers may not know their diabetes control rate, Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) completion rate or care-gap closure rate, not because they do not care about those measures, but because nobody has consistently put the numbers in front of them. 

This guide, Provider Transparency in Rural Healthcare: Turning Data Visibility into Performance walks through how rural organizations can identify the right measures, build useful provider reports and make the data part of a consistent performance conversation.