'Transparent' PM dishes up more public datasets

The definition of "successfully treated" ...

... in economic terms may mean no more than "no future related costs associated". There's two ways to achieve that, have the patient die, or have the patient fully recover.

The latter is enormously difficult to measure, and the metric is unstable, who can say when the condition might regress ... or whether treatment costs for the same patient at a later date are a consequence of unsuccessful / insufficient earlier treatment instead of something that'd have happened anyway.

So for pure beancounters / number crunchers / metrics-obsessed middle management being targeted first and foremost by cost reductions achieved, there's an endless field to plow of arbitrarily stretchable (non)correlations ... with an incentive to make people die early because that's the one thing which unrefutably achieves the aim.

That doesn't make the data uninteresting; I merely wonder whether managing health services in a data-driven way is appropriate for this kind of "business".