data

This site is about funding, it’s about how we fund healthcare, and about how we fund hospitals. It’s about how we measure and analyze the effect that different funding methods have on the healthcare so that, in the end, we can design better systems. To do this, we analyze vast amounts of data. We rely heavily on the diagnostic data captured in administrative data to adjust our comparisons for differences in the complexity of patients both over time and across hospitals. A crucial question for us and other health services researchers is, “how reliable are the data we use?” Read more