Dr. Skip's Medical Peer Review Blog: Independent Medical Review and Customized Reporting

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Independent Medical Review and Customized Reporting

Many of our clients call upon us to provide them with customized reports at the end of each month which outline a number of different elements of the reviews that we've performed for them. From simple reports that list the clients, dates, patient names, and the outcomes through to more advanced reports that relate to reliability, returns on investments, and other elements.

An IRO needs to have advanced database management capabilities which allow them to prepare and customize reports of these natures in order to furnish them to clients on a timely basis. Clients want the IRO to be able to abstract this information and provide it to them for analysis, as opposed to asking the client to take on this burden. As medical management firms, TPAs, and health insurance plans look to outsource more of their medical decision making processes to IROs, it stands to reason that they want to outsource a lot of the analytics and reporting that would go with it. Today's IRO needs to be able to respond with advanced capabilities when it comes to database management, reporting, graphical analysis of data, and interpretation.