What We Deliver

What the IQSC delivers to you as a member

• Quarterly Hospital Discharge Data File to mirror the State's public use data file.  Contains all IQSC members agreeing to data exchange.  The data is received from hospitals 45-60 days after the close of a quarter and released back to hospitals no later than 90 days after the close of the quarter.
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicator reports
  • Inpatient Quality Indicators (currently released twice a year)
  • Prevention Quality Indicators (currently released yearly)
  • Patient Safety Quality Indicators (currently released yearly)
• Provider Comparative Reports by APR-DRG for volume, length of stay and charges.  (released twice a year)
• By request, hospitals can acquire AHRQ Patient Detail Data used as source for AHRQ reporting
• By request, hospitals can acquire a 1450 Access Database containing patient detail data to facilitate physician and hospital certification of data for THCIC
• By request, hospitals can acquire Mom-Baby Matched Data containing over 200 variable from administrative and birth certificate data (update in 2005 based on new BC form)
• Interactive Dimensional Reporting and Trending Capability through a Web portal - via COGNOS PowerPlay
• Planned Control Chart and Interactive Geomapping capability via a Web portal