Healthcare Data Setting Paper

A healthcare data set an organized list of information filled with uniformed definitions for a particular use. Each data set is created to capture and arrange certain data elements. The healthcare data set I chose to discuss is The Outcomes and Assessment Information Set (OASIS-C). OASIS-C is a standardized data set designed to obtain and list data about Medicare beneficiaries who receiving services from a Medicare-Certified home health agency (Sayles, 2014, pp. 153). In January, 2010 the OASIS data set was revised to OASIS-C to implement data items that supported measurement rates for use of specific evidence-based care process. Then OASIS-C was again revised to the current version of the OASIS data set in order to accommodate the transition from ICD-9 to the ICD-10 diagnosis coding system. The new version of the OASIS data set was approved by The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and was put into effect October, 2015 (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS], 2016). The history of the OASIS-C data set dates back to the 1980’s when Medicare paid for home health services individually. This caused a lot of abuse and fraud from agencies that took advantage of this and billed Medicare for patient’s the agencies did not visit. This …show more content…
This specific data element is used to collect and report performance data provided by the home health agency (CMS, 2016). The purpose of this data set was to collect data that assessed the patient’s ability to be discharged and/or transferred from home health services, as well as measuring patient outcomes in order to assess the quality of home health services. The data is also used to create patient profile reports and patient outcome reports that are used by state survey staff for the certification process (Sayles, 2014, pp.