Blog by Jen Miff, President of the DFWHC Foundation The DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation has a rich history of supporting patient safety improvements, quality analyses and metrics, and community health use cases through its robust, longitudinal data sets. A little-known fact, however, is that the DFWHC Foundation also offers subscription-based access plans to the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Texas Health Care Information Collection Agency’
THCIC Rural Exemption is coming to an end
Since the inception of the Texas Health Care Information Collection (THCIC) Agency, rural hospitals have been exempt from submitting data to the state if they met certain criteria. During the state’s 2011 Legislative session, Senate Bill 7 repealed the sections of the Texas Health and Safety Code that allowed for exceptions. Effective Oct. 1, 2014, […]
THCIC begins collection of emergency room data
The Texas Health Care Information Collection Agency (THCIC) will begin collection of emergency room data to measure preventable emergency room visits. They will be required to submit a report of their findings to legislators on an annual basis beginning Dec. 31, 2014. THCIC has not announced when they will begin collection of this data from […]