State Stat Graphs
Maryland Per Capita Health Care Spending and Typical Employee Health Care Out-of-Pocket Expenditures by Employer Size
Maryland Resident Health Insurance Coverage
Maryland Average Health Insurance Premium for Single Coverage by Employer Size, Divided by the Average Annual Wage
Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The number of documents uploaded each month to the statewide health information exchange known as Chesapeake Regional Information System for Our Patients (CRISP):
ADT includes admission, discharge, and transfer data
Labs include laboratory reports
Rads include radiology reports
Trans include transcribed documents
The annual goals are set by the CRISP Board of Directors and remain through September 30, 2012.
Hospital Revenues by quarter
Hospital Inpatient, outpatient, and total growth rates by quarter
Hospital-based Preventable complications and their changes, by quarter
Hospital readmissions and associated costs, by quarter
Surgical Care and Improvement Project (SCIP) and Hospital Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Quality Measures.
SCIP and HCAHPS Quality Measures
The patient's perspective on the care provided by hospitals is a good gauge of hospital quality and performance. Since 2009, the Maryland Health Care Commission has utilized the results of a national survey of hospital patients to obtain and report on measures of hospital performance. The survey asks a sample of recently discharged patients about important aspects of the care received while in the hospital. The graph shows that Maryland hospitals have improved slightly in 2011 as compared to the previous year. Despite the improvement, Maryland hospitals were only able to achieve 80% or higher on the measure associated with the provision of appropriate discharge instructions.
A number of measures have been developed to assess surgical quality. These measures include process of care measures that are derived from evidence based guidelines. For example, there are studies that show providing a patient with antibiotics at least 1 hour before a surgical incision can prevent infection. The graph shows the performance of Maryland hospitals over time (i.e., 2009, 2010, and 2011) for several process measures focusing on a sample of patients who undergo surgery on an inpatient basis.