Score
Affiliations in Healthbase indicate not just a relationship between HCOs (Healthcare Organizations) and HCPs (Healthcare professionals), but also the strength of this relationship.
This strength is indicated by a score between (1-100), with 1 being low and 100 being high.
The benefit of using a quantitative score to link entities are many.
- Detailed: Indicates not just affiliation but strength of affiliation
- Triangulated: Algorithmically combine signals from many sources into one easy to consume number
- Analytics read: Use the quantitative scores in your computations
Healthbase uses the following sources to compute a score:
- Real-world claims that indicate nature of relationship and volume of claims
- Public data that include regulatory filings, tax filings and focused web-crawls
- CMS datasets including Provider of Services and other Medicare-derived data sets
Data from disparate sources then get algorithmically weighted to arrive at a number between 1-100
1. Interpreting a score
The affiliation listing page details the score between an entity and the facility or practitioner of interest. Note that the same entity would have a different score with different entities.
Score: 100: Typically an ownership relationship Score: 99-76: Very strong affiliation Score: 75-51: Strong affiliation Score: <50: Moderate to low affiliation