Information Services

Quick Reference to IHA Information Services

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AHA Annual Survey

•   Annual hospital licensure survey in Iowa
•   Source: Audited financial statements
•   Contains: utilization, financial, personnel and services data
•   Contact: Dustin Wagner

•   Data due monthly by 21st of the next month
•   Total facility based with acute and long-term care data
•   Financial, personnel, and utilization data
•   Balance sheet and financial ratios
•   Contact: Kara Dickey

Dimensions

• "Point & Click:" ease to use Internet-based software tool that provides more than 90 report templates that you can customize for use with inpatient/outpatient data

• "Slice & Dice:" customized Internet-based software used to build reports and charts for use with inpatient/outpatient data

•   Contacts: Sara Hayes or Kara Dickey

DATABANK Quality Reporting Program

•   Internet-based quarterly submission
•   Quarterly reports available
•   Includes information on med errors, falls, AMI/ASC, C-sections, and hospital-acquired infections
•   Data due 45 days after end of quarter
•   Contact: Kathy Trytten

Community Benefits Survey

•   Internet-based survey submission
•   Annual release of community benefits data for hospitals
•   Hospitals receive peer benchmarking data
•   Used in IHA state and national advocacy efforts
•   Contact : Kelly Coe-DeVore

•   Annual release of economic impact Internet-based survey submission
•   Annual release of economic impact data for hospitals and other health care providers
•   Contact: Dustin Wagner

Medicare Impact Modeling

•   Payment impact analysis of Medicare regulation and legislation
•   Source: Medicare health care provider cost report information system (HCRIS)
•   Contact: Dustin Wagner

Salary & Benefits Survey

•   Annual data due by September 1
•   Reports sent to hospitals in early October
•   Includes information on Management, Non-Management, and Executive Salaries and Benefits
•   Snapshot Salary Survey in April
•   Contact: Kara Dickey

•   Data due quarterly:
  •   1st Quarter Data Due May 31
  •   2nd Quarter Data Due August 31
  •   3rd Quarter Data Due November 30
  •   4th Quarter Data Due February 28

• Inpatient: Includes data on acute inpatients including newborns, skilled, swing bed skilled, behavioral health and rehabilitation

• Outpatient: Includes data on all hospital-based ambulatory procedures, emergency room, and observation patients.

•   Required by the State of Iowa
•   Data bases released semiannually
•   Data available in Dimensions (software used to produce data in a user friendly useful format)
•   Contact: Kathy Trytten

For IHA Profiles annual fact book, contact: Kelly Coe-DeVore

For Endorsed Services, contact: Perry Meyer

You know the IHA Information Center is the source for health care data in Iowa...

But did you know our staff is our greatest resource and we are here to assist you? Since 1986, the Information Center staff have gathered, analyzed, and interpreted data about Iowa hospitals and health systems. Whether you are trying to decide which database to utilize or how to read a Patient Origin and Destination Study, the Information Center staff is available to fulfill data request, interpret information, and determine what data products/services to use. We can assist you in answering the data questions you have as well as help you ask the right questions in your search for data.

The Information Center staff is committed to providing high quality data products and services, and a quick response to your data requests. For more information on the IHA Information Center call (800) 240-1046 or e-mail us at InformationCenter@ihaonline.org. If you are looking for a particular data product or service contact the following staff:

•   Perry Meyer, Senior Vice President, Information Center
•   Sara Hayes, Senior Director, Information Center
•   Randy Higgs, Director, Information Technology
•   Kelly Coe-DeVore, Director, Data Analysis
•   Kara Dickey, Director of DATABANK and Information Support Services
•   Kathy Trytten, Director, Information & Quality Management
•   Dustin Wagner, Director, Financial Information Services
•   Chad Watters, Network Administrator
•   Jan Sposeto, Information Center Secretary
•   Phone: 515/288-1955
•   Fax: 515/283-9366
•   Email address: InformationCenter@ihaonline.org