Patient Data System
Find out how the Texas Hospital Association’s Patient Data System data products and services can help your hospital track patient migration and better manage service lines: |
- PDS Care Comparison®
- PDS Polaris Suite®
- PDS Outpatient Data Collection® Solution
- Market Expert® State Data Analyst, through Thomson Reuters
- Other Data Resources
PDS Care Comparison®
PDS Care Comparison® is the PDS Basic Service Package of 10 customized reports specific to your hospital. These quarterly analyses provide a snapshot of how your hospital is performing relative to peers in key performance categories. With Care Comparison, your hospital staff can focus on identifying and designing solutions – instead of spending valuable time crunching numbers and creating reports.
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View a sample Care Comparison report.
PDS Polaris Suite®
For hospitals seeking even greater depth of analysis, the PDS Polaris Suite® is the solution. This powerful suite of tools, developed by Thomson Reuters, links business and clinical issues, so hospitals can pinpoint precise improvement opportunities. The PDS Polaris Suite integrates market share, resource utilization and clinical quality analysis on a single Internet platform. Polaris is the industry’s most comprehensive set of reporting tools for analyzing patient data – and making better decisions. Seamless, integrated and user-friendly, the PDS Polaris Suite® makes your job easier with enhanced reporting and presentation capabilities.
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Outpatient Data Collection® Solution
The PDS Outpatient Data Collection® Solution launched in 2009 to help Texas hospitals meet the state’s new outpatient reporting requirements. In partnership with Thomson Reuters, the PDS Outpatient Data Collection Solution handles the outpatient data reporting requirement for you – no hassle, no delays. If your hospital is one of the hundreds impacted by this new requirement, learn more about PDS Outpatient Data Collection Solution.
Data sheet
List of outpatient procedures
Outpatient contract addendum for existing PDS customers
Outpatient contract for new PDS customers
THCIC transmission agreement
Frequently asked questions
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Market Expert® State Data Analyst
Through PDS’ partnership with Thomson Reuters, Texas hospitals can access a variety of competitor data though Thomson Reuters’ Market Expert® State Data Analyst. Market Expert State Data Analyst enables strategic planners to quickly analyze available public and private inpatient, outpatient and emergency room competitor data.
Learn more about the Market Expert State Data Analyst.
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Other Data Resources
The Texas Hospital Association’s marketing subsidiary, HealthSHARE, markets additional data products and services of THA-endorsed companies. Learn more about other data products available to THA member hospitals.
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Questions?
Contact Kent Stevens, Manager, Patient Data System, at 512/465-1558 or via e-mail.
Already have your Polaris User ID and password?
Click here to start using the THA Patient Data System, featuring Polaris.
Acquire your Polaris login information by contacting Thomson Reuters’ Ida Wonschik at 816/781-3833 or ida.wonschik@thomsonreuters.com.
THCIC Reporting: Click here for a list of the data required by Texas' revised mandatory reporting rules and a link to detailed instructions for submitting THCIC-required data through THA's PDS.
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