Question

What do we mean by provider profiling? What are some of the important principles in provider profiling? What are some of the problems that can occur with profiling, and how might a plan address those?

Answer 1

Provider profiling refers to the assessment or measurements of performance of the Doctors regarding their service and quality care.

The importance of provider profiling are

• Providing access to the physician for EHR
• Following innovative care
• use of technology in the right way

Some of the problem can occur with profiling are

• Less number of patients are seen by the physician for providing quality care
• Physician can be stressed out bu over work load
• lack of the number of patients providing a feedback about the physicians
• profile released can lead to cyber hack