Table of Contents

Keynotes
 Presentations
Workshops
SummaryPresentations
Wednesday Morning
Health data use and benchmarking 1 Healthcare pricing Measuring and improving care quality Healthcare costing 1
Wednesday Afternoon
Health data use and Benchmarking 2 Healthcare funding Aged and long-term care systems Healthcare costing 2
Thursday Morning
Population-based funding tools and strategies 1 AI and automation in clinical coding Health system forecasting and planning System implementation
Thursday Afternoon
Casemix grouping Clinical coding practices and innovations Use of AI Concurrent panel
Friday Morning
Population-based funding tools and strategies 2 Health service resourcing and economics Data-informed care improvement Enhancing casemix precision
Poster
Poster
Website
PCSI
Conference
MSSS
CIHI
Miscellaneous
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Keynotes

Partnership in Health - QUEBEC'S EXPERIENCE
Catherine Wilhelmy
Co-Director of Experiences —Quebec Community of Patients, Caregivers, and Citizen Partners of the Quebec SSA Support Unit
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Never Shall the Twain Meet? Not so for Patient Classification and Health Inequality Research!
Améie Quesnel-Vallé
Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities at McGill University
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Community Engagement in Artificial Intelligence: lessons for value-based healthcare
Ibukun Abejirinde
Adjunct Scientist, Women's College Hospital Research and Innovation Institute
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Value-Based Healthcare - Developments and lessons from The Netherlands
Paul van der Nat
Professor of value-based healthcare at IQ healthcare (Radboudumc) and manager value-based healthcare at St. Antonius Hospital
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Healthy Kinzigtal and more Alternative Value Based Care Models in Germany
Justin Rautenberg
Senior Manager Integrated Care, OptiMedis AG
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Workshops

Introduction to Casemix
Deniza Mazevska – Patient Classification Systems International (PCSI)
Kristiina Kahur – Patient Classification Systems International (PCSI)
Rachel Zhang – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Koffi Kpelitse – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Joanie Gingras – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Marisela Mainegra Hing – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Angeline Wilcox – Canadian Institute for Health Information
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How to Analyze Casemix Data to Inform Risk Adjustment and Payment Policies
Conrad Kobel – HealthConsult
Jeff Hatcher – Canadian Institute for Health Information
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ICD-11 Coding to Grouping – Going beyond Morbidity and Mortality to I11 Payment
Thilo Koepfer – Health Information Systems, Solventum
Mandy Reid – Health Information Systems, Solventum
Michelle Badore – Health Information Systems, Solventum
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Modernizing Data and Methods from A to Z in Canada
Debra Chen – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Koffi Kpelitse – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Micheline Turneau – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Sharon Baker – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Cassandra Linton – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Pierre Léveillé – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Britta Nielsen – Canadian Institute for Health Information
No Presentation Available
Harnessing the power of CIHI’s Population Grouping Methodology
Debra Chen – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Koffi Kpelitse – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Lyn Sibley – Ontario Medical Association
Bin Xu – Canadian Institute for Health Information
Mani Sotoodeh – Canadian Institute for Health Information
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System wide integration of value-based healthcare – the Australian experience
Sarah Neville, Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority and the Commonwealth Fund
Samuel Webster, Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority
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Outpatients – Improving Productivity and Value for Patients
Mark O’Connor - National Productivity Unit, HSE Ireland, PCSI Executive Committee
Winston Piddington – Health Classification and Funding – UAE
Octavian Weiser - Solventum
Naveen Sharma - Solventum
Sandeep Wadhwa - Solventum
Thilo Koepfer - Solventum
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Patient Level Costing and Patient-Related Outcome Measures: A Winning Combination for Quantifying the Clinical Impact of Care Pathways.
Marc Hyndman, PowerSanté/Telstra Health
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Wednesday (Morning)

Health data use and benchmarking 1

Further advances in the recording system for additional public patient treatments.

Brian McCarthy (Ireland), Paval Kuriakose (Ireland), Richard Ryan (Ireland), Philip Dunne (Ireland), Joe Hunter (Ireland)
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Patient Grouping: Converting Data into Actionable Insight using Pure Clinical Categorical Methodologies

Mike Norton (United Kingdom), David Gannon (United States)
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Outpatient - Establishing Productivity

Mark O'Connor (Ireland), Niamh Barrett (Ireland), Martina Behan (Ireland), Gary O'Callaghan (Ireland), Gavin O'Neill (Ireland), Mary Coghlan (Ireland), Edel Smith (Ireland), Jessica Polykarpou (Ireland), John Boland (Ireland)
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Value-based care - the data to advance the vision

Erin Cook (Canada), Ani Galstyan (Canada)
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Healthcare pricing

A proposed typology of policy-driven payment rates for hospital care

Stephen Duckett (Australia)
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A review of data capture, costing and pricing for virtual care in Australian public hospitals: Insights and challenges

Julia Conway (Australia), Raj Verma (Australia), Emily Ryan (Australia), Deniza Mazevska (Australia), Jim Pearse (Australia)
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Improving outcomes and quality of care in Oncology through Patient-Based Funding in Quebec

Kossi Thomas Golo (Canada), Édith Aumont-Duchesne (Canada), Nicolas Robert (Canada), Évelyne Makouet (Canada), Achille Sekpona-Medjago (Canada), Pierre-Luc Dézainde (Canada)
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The use of investigative technology in the emergency department and it's impact on resource use.

Angeline Wilcox (Canada), Tina Li (Canada), Karen Horne (Canada)
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Measuring and improving care quality

High rates of Central Line and Port Infections following Ambulatory CVC Procedures detected by AM-PPC

Ajay Perumbeti (United States), Dana Casey (United States), Sandeep Wadhwa (United States), Elizabeth Mccullough (United States)
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Improving and utilising coded sepsis data - clinical audit and coding quality.

Jacqui Curley (Ireland)
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Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Monitor the Quality of Infection Therapy: Integrating CaseMix and Clinical Data to Enhance Care Quality

Michael Wilke (Germany), Harald Kuhlmann (Germany), Markus Rathmayer (Germany)
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Patient Grouping as a Driver of Value in Health- Case Study: Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM)

Catherine Stemper (United States), Catherine Brett (United States)
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Healthcare costing 1

A National-Level Patient-Level Costing Model: Overcoming Provider Deficiencies and Driving Healthcare Transformation

Hefin Jones (Saudi Arabia), Maram Alrowisan (Saudi Arabia)
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Australia's National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) - 25 years in the making

Iman Mehdi (Australia)
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Casemix Costing in Ireland- Uses beyond ABF

Mary Phelan (Ireland)
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From Patient-level Costing to Value-based Healthcare: International Learnings and Montreal Jewish General Hospital Experience

Serge Boulard (Canada), Ron Tanenbaum (Australia)
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Wednesday (Afternoon)

Health data use and Benchmarking 2

Adopting Activity Based Management utilising monthly Activity Based Costing and an Activity Based Budget.

Ross Wilson (New Zealand), Cobus Lotheringen (Australia), Jordan Beale (Australia)
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Advancements in international benchmarking, predictive forecasts and data quality

Alison Allen (United Kingdom), Victoria Hirst (Australia), Ashleigh Mills (Australia), Lachlan Rudd (Australia), Stephen Badham (Australia)
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Integrating Activity and Auditing Metrics to Advance Hospital Performance in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Karolina Kalanj (Croatia), Nina Mihić, Irina Cvitanović, Andrej Čović
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Development of a standardized tool for visualizing information on new cancer cases for health and social services institutions in Quebec

Janie Allaire (Canada), Guillaume Ruel (Canada), Johanne Labbé (Canada), Annie Bourassa (Canada), Joëlle Sarra-Bournet (Canada), Audrée Grenier (Canada)
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Healthcare funding

Balancing funding stability and incentivising activity reporting in the transition of Australian community mental health services from block funding to activity based funding

Julia Conway (Australia), Mireille Regan Gomm (Australia)
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Effects of the introduction of HybridDRGs in Germany analysing real-world data

Markus Rathmayer (Germany), Harald Kuhlmann (Germany), Michael Wilke (Germany), Wolfgang Heinlein (Germany), Jörg G. Albert (Germany)
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Designing block funding arrangements within an activity-based system for community mental health: lessons from Australia to reduce financial risk for rural and specialised services.

Mireille Regan Gomm (Australia), Julia Conway (Australia)
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KSA Value-Based Payment Models Journey: Design to Implementation

Neha Taneja (Saudi Arabia), Maram Alrowisan (Saudi Arabia)
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Aged and long-term care systems

Achieving value and sustainability in aged care pricing and funding

Cindy Feng (Australia), Rachel Hauenschild (Australia)
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Capturing the variation in resident care costs in the Australian Aged Care system

James Chen (Australia)
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Recent staffing and quality indicator trends in Canadian long-term care

Gregory Feng (Canada), Andrew McCabe (Canada), Margaret Mousseau (Canada), Lauren Clow (Canada), Norma Hall (Canada), Cathy Hyunh (Canada), Laura Salter (Canada), Chantal Couris (Canada)
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What we know about the cost of a standard day in long term care in Canada

Helen Wei-Randall (Canada), Lauren Clow (Canada)
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Healthcare costing 2

Mapping the Future of Patient Level Costing in Canada

Audrey Kim (Canada), Pierre Léveillé (Canada)
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Province-wide implementation of patient-level costing: Saskatchewan Improving Value in Healthcare Project.

Serge Boulard (Canada), Christian Pepin (Canada)
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Supporting patient care across provincial/territorial boundaries in Canada with patient cost data

Catherine Yu (Canada), Britta Nielsen (Canada)
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Estimating Costs to Patient Groups in Absence of Patient Costing

Audrey Kim (Canada), Pierre Léveillé (Canada), Britta Nielsen (Canada)
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Thursday (Morning)

Population-based funding tools and strategies 1

Comparison of Johns Hopkins ACGs and the CIHI Population Grouper for assessing the morbidity and health care utilization of the population of Ontario, Canada

Lyn Sibley (Canada), Yin Li (Canada), Jasmin Kantarevic (Canada), Richard Glazier (Canada)
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Developing and Improving Predictive Models of the Risk of Health Utilisation and Future Healthcare expenditures: National Recalibrations and new markers

Stephen Sutch (United States), Klaus Lemke (United States), Harriet Martyn (United States)
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Population Health Segmentation and Stratification: Applications of Patient Need Groups (PNGs)

Stephen Sutch (United Kingdom), Harriet Martyn (United States), James Barrett (United Kingdom), Paul Molyneux (United Kingdom)
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The impact of the POP-Grouper reference period on the results of the segmentation of clinical profiles from clinical-administrative data from Quebec.

Elhadji Malick Ndao (Canada), Mamadou Diop (Canada), Mike Benigeri (Canada), Jean-Luc Kaboré (Canada), Isabelle Samson (Canada)
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Application of the Canadian Grouping Methodology to Assess Population Use of Primary Care Services: A Planning Support Tool.

Hélène Plé (Canada), Mamadou Diop (Canada), Claire Imbaud (Canada), Mike Benigeri (Canada), Philippe Lachance (Canada), Isabelle Samson (Canada)
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AI and automation in clinical coding

Australian Clinical Coding Artificial Intelligence (AI) Adoption Guideline

Sallyanne Wissmann (Australia)
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Computer-Assisted Coding and Documentation in a Large Hospital in Milan, Italy

Daniele Alberio (Italy), Valentina Errico (Italy), Ferdinando Cananzi (Italy), Stefano Aliberti (Italy), Ornella Leoncini (Italy)
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Developing an autonomous coding solution: Canada, UK and Australia - results across three ICD versions

Cheryl McCullagh (Australia), Steve Badham (Australia), Jennifer Nobbs (United Kingdom), Alison Allen (United Kingdom), Jodi McMullen (Canada)
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Preparing Coders and Leadership for AI-Driven Medical Coding

Maarten Lambrecht (Belgium), Karen Pien (Belgium)
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The Use of EffectiveCAN with Confidence Levels for Automated ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding of French Hospital Stay Records.

Peter Heirman (Belgium), Maarten Lambrecht (Belgium), Philippe Kolh (Belgium), Ashwin Ittoo (Belgium)
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Health system forecasting and planning

Application of Case-Mix Methodology for Population-Based Physician Workforce Planning in Ontario, Canada

Li Jiang (Canada), Yin Li (Canada), Thomas Fruehauf (Canada), George Marusic (Canada), Jasmin Kantarevic (Canada), Lyn Sibley (Canada)
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Funding Policy Considerations reflecting on Projected Patterns of Illness in Ontario.

Imtiaz Daniel (Canada), Laura Rosella (Canada), Adalsteinn Brown (Canada), Emmalin Buajitti (Canada), Monica Alexandra (Canada)
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Implementing a new methodology to forecast the hospital activity in France until 2027

Alexis Gravel (France), Nathalie Rigollot (France)
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Looking to the future - Projecting future hospital activity - Approaches, Challenges and Results

Kevin Ratcliffe (Australia)
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Service-Related Groups in Federal Hospital Planning - Opportunities and Challenges

Harald Kuhlmann (Germany), Michael Wilke (Germany), Markus Rathmayer (Germany)
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System implementation

Advancements in coding, classification systems, and data quality in Canada

Alison Allen (United Kingdom), Jodi McMullin (Canada), Stephen Badham (Australia)
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The Need for a National Training Program in Patient-Level Costing

Hefin Jones (Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman Alshehri (Saudi Arabia), Maram Alrowisan (Saudi Arabia)
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Stakeholder responses to the results of the national cost analysis

Martina Zorko Kodelja (Slovenia), Karmen Grom Kenk (Slovenia)
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A mobilisation strategy for clinicians with costing data

Sandrine Dupont (Canada), Philippe Lachapelle (Canada)
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Transforming patient care: automated mapping of hospital patient episodes using process mining with sequential probability analysis

Amanda Ling (Australia), A Z M Ehtesham Chowdhury (Australia), Pammy Yeoh (Australia), Brendon McMullen (Australia), John Blakey (Australia)
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Thursday (Afternoon)

Casemix grouping

Development an internationally aligned casemix system based on WHO Family of International Classifications

Robert Jakob (Switzerland), Eva Krpelanova (Switzerland), Martti Virtanen (Finland), Kristiina Kahur (Finland)
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The Need for Change: Too Many Health Systems are Data Rich, Information Poor (DRIP)

Mike Norton (United Kingdom), Laia Buigues Pastor (Spain)
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Financial Evaluation of Groups for DRG 301 - Hip Joint Replacement

Andre Guigui (Canada), Camille Francoeur (Canada), John Fletcher (Canada), Pierre-Olivier Sylvestre (Canada)
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Clinical coding practices and innovations

Case Study: A Hospital in Melbourne, Australia - Benefits of Moving from Retrospective to Concurrent Query/Coding Process

Stephanie Cantin-Smith (United States), Kathy Wilton (United States)
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Developing Coding Guidance for Elective Care Surgical Hubs in Ireland

Jacqui Curley (Ireland), Brian McCarthy (Ireland)
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Development of a Coding Audit Methodology Framework for the Private Health Sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Susan Young (Saudi Arabia), Wail Yar (Saudi Arabia), Fawaz Alomran (Saudi Arabia), Thilo Koepfer (United States), Anadil Assawi (United Arab Emirates), Michelle Badore (United States)
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A Partnership Approach for Developing National Safety, Quality, and Population Health Insights from Coded Data: CNHI, Beamtree, and Lean

Stephen Badham (Australia), Maimunah Aisuhaibany (United Kingdom), Jennifer Nobbs (United Kingdom)
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Use of AI

Stumbling Upon the Black Gorilla: A Lucky Break in Overcoming Healthcare Financing Barriers with AI - A Case Study on Transfusion Funding in Slovenia

Jana Wahl (Slovenia), Kevin Ratcliffe (Australia)
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Using case mix aggregation to understand travel burden for hospital care in Canada

Kim Nuernberger (Canada), Steve Atkinson (Canada)
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Towards Curated learning - Analyzing Casemix NordDRG system Expert System using Machine Learning tools

Tapio Pitkäranta (Finland)
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Concurrent panel

Optimizing cost and quality through enhanced clinical grouping, a multi-expert collaborative approach

Jeff Hatcher (Canada), Jean Noël Nikiema (Canada), Kristin Dahlen (Norway), Eva Wensaas (Norway), Jim Pearse (Australia), Amanda Ling (Australia)
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Friday (Morning)

Population-based funding tools and strategies 2

Exploring multimorbidity trajectories in the Canadian population.

Koffi Kpelitse (Canada), Mani Sotoodeh (Canada), Debra Chen (Canada)
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Implementing a new regionally managed funding mechanism: the population endowment.

Alexis Gravel (France), Nathalie Rigollot (France)
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Integrated and Personalized Care for Multimorbid Patients: Optimizing Treatment and Funding

Jacob Hofdijk (Netherlands), Felix Cillessen (Netherlands)
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The Challenge of Multimorbidity: Towards Integrated and Data Driven Care Models: Insights from International Collaborations

Jacob Hofdijk (Netherlands), Felix Cillessen (Netherlands), Michael Pervan (Australia), Imtiaz Daniel (Canada)
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Health service resourcing and economics

Analysis of the impact of lesion localization practices on the breast cancer care pathway

Sandrine Dupont (Canada), Philippe Lachapelle (Canada)
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The cost of infections after knee replacement: demonstrating the impact for care providers within the CHU de Québec - Université Laval.

Sandrine Dupont (Canada), Philippe Lachapelle (Canada)
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Comparative Study on the Allocative Efficiency among 5 countries

Euasin Joung (South Korea), Rodigues Jean Marie (France), Insoo Chung (United States)
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Lowering the medical data production load in hospitals by challenging the institutional demand

Etienne Joubert (France), Sophie Guéant (France), Fabrice Danjou (France), Joëlle Dubois (France)
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Global shift of health care systems towards the ambulatory care

Naveen Sharma (United States)
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Data-informed care improvement

Addressing Global Health Inequities: Improving Data for Social Determinants of Health

Michelle Badore (United States)
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Impact of precise Staging of Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease on Treatment Outcomes: Observational Study, real world data, ICD-10-GM

Olga Endrich (Switzerland), Christos T. Nakas (Greece), Karen Triep (Switzerland), Georg M. Fiedler (Switzerland)
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Increasing SDoH Data Code Capture Across Healthcare Systems

Tiffany Harman (United States), Ajay Perumbeti (United States)
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Case mix measures and resource estimates associated with ALC days in Canada.

Sheril Perry (Canada), Joanie Gingras (Canada)
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Harnessing Casemix Data and Coding Systems: A Tool for Population Health Measurement

Nebras Abu Al Hamayel (Saudi Arabia), Sarah Alismail (Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Alghamdi (Saudi Arabia), Susan E. Young (Saudi Arabia), Shabab Alghamdi (Saudi Arabia)
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Enhancing casemix precision

Accuracy of DRG Relative Weights Calibration using Machine Learning versus Standard HSRV Methodology

Octavian Weiser (Germany)
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Clinical Documentation Improvement Framework for the Private Sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Fawaz Alomran (Saudi Arabia), Susan Young (Saudi Arabia), Wail Yar (Saudi Arabia), Simone Gravesande-Joseph (United States), Eric Evenson (United States)
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Severity determination in French DRGs : towards the experimentation of a new model

Nicolas Dapzol (France), Vincent Pisetta (France), Nathalie Raimbaud (France), Alexandra Delannoy (France), Raphael Schwob (France), Joelle Dubois (France)
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The LabTNS-CPSS toolkit for updating comorbidity scores refined by chronic conditions

Jean Nikiema (Canada), Azadeh Bayani (Canada), Michèle Bally (Canada)
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Poster

Strengthening Dermatological and Infectious Disease Surveillance and Care Delivery in Resource-Limited Settings: Lessons from Nepal

Shambhu Joshi (Nepal), Dinesh Joshi (Nepal)
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Optimizing Patient Care and Resource Allocation Through Electronic Medical Records and Health Insurance Integration in Nepal

Mandeep Dutta Joshi (Nepal), Tilak Ojha (Nepal), Sd Joshi (Nepal)
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Improvement of Surgical Hierarchy Criteria in KDRG V4.6

Dayoung Yoon (South Korea), Jiyeon Lee (South Korea)
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Improving the Accuracy of the Patient Classification System through Refinement of Classification Variables

Dayoung Yoon (South Korea), Jiyeon Lee (South Korea)
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Costing app - create your own tool or buy an established IT solution?

Tatjana Suhadolnik (Slovenia), Dalibor Gavrić (Slovenia), Martina Zorko Kodelja (Slovenia)
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Optimizing Healthcare Efficiency through Casemix Driven Machine Learning: A Predictive Model for High-risk Readmissions

Nebras Abu Al Hamayel (Saudi Arabia), Sarah Alismail (Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Alghamdi (Saudi Arabia), Susan E. Young (Saudi Arabia), Marija Tepegjozova (Saudi Arabia), Shabab Alghamdi (Saudi Arabia)
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Patient Classification Models, powerful tools in a healthcare emergency. A Data Driven Prioritisation Model for the Distribution of PPE.

Mike Norton (United Kingdom), L. Gordon Moore (United States)
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Validation of the translation and mapping of standard procedure classifications from different health systems using the OHDSI Usagi tool

Karen Triep (Switzerland), Hugo Guillen-Ramirez (Switzerland), Stefanie Laura Mart (Switzerland), Florian Duss (Switzerland), Guido Beldi (Switzerland), Olga Endrich (Switzerland)
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