The challenge

Within hospital trusts, data is used to assign patient treatment costs to correct PCTs (Primary Care Trust). After patient treatment, a hospital may need to charge back treatment costs to the appropriate PCT. If the data used is incorrect, this can be a time consuming and manual process.

How can Experian QAS help?

With Experian QAS Healthcoder, you can collect accurate address and PCT information from the outset. Meaning:

• data to be accurate from the start
• you instantly know the PCT a patient is registered to
• treatment charge-backs to the owning PCT are easily managed

This will enable better use of valuable budget and support other initiatives.

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The benefits of QAS Healthcoder

• Return accurate Postal Address File, Strategic Health Authority, Primary Care Trust and Electoral Ward information for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. - Maintain accurate patient records so you can effectively communicate and care for patients.
  
  
• Append ZZ international codes and PCT information at point of registration, - removing the need to manually append retrospectively.
  
  
Automatically assign ZZ international codes - so you can charge-back costs of non-UK patients to their own country.


• Overcome human error - correct spelling mistakes or incomplete addresses.
  
  

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QAS Healthcoder has a range of features:

• Single line entry - QAS Healthcoder simply requires one or more component parts of the address, separated by a comma, to bring back a full address.
  
  
• Health Sector data - any address returned can include the Primary Care Trust (PCT) code and the NHS Authority related to that postcode.
  
  
• ZZ postcodes - returns the country name and postcode. There are two types of search you can perform; single match or 'wild card'.
  
  
• Fuzzy matching - entries containing a variety of ambiguous spellings, abbreviations and different formats will return a pick-list containing the correct address.
  
  
• Recode postcodes - if you search on a postcode that has been changed by the Royal Mail (since 1990) QAS Healthcoder will find the address and return the new postcode.
  
  
• Address coverage - QAS Healthcoder provides access to detailed data from the Postal Address File.
  
  
• Formatting and configuration options - different address layouts can be defined and automatically reformatted to match the underlying application. Users can paste into their own database, a clipboard or a file.
  
  
• Easy integration - QAS Healthcoder is available as a seamless function within most hospital Patient Administration Systems (PAS).

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You may find the following additional information useful:

• Visit our Healthcare sector page- Managing patient data
• Read how you can de-duplicate your data within the public sector, with QAS Identify
• View our product demonstrations
• Read our customer case studies
• Read how our Professional Services team can assist your data needs
• Read dedicated data quality news for the Healthcare industry.
• Find out more about how QAS Healthcoder can benefit your organisation, call 0800 197 7920 , or email us