Definitions for "Trending"
Keywords:  ically, npmt, forecast, pmk, rmw
Methods of estimating future costs of health services by reviewing past trends in cost and utilization of these services. Also see Actuarial.
The process of using historical data and other statistics to forecast future events, especially with regard to price inflation of loss costs.
A calculation used to anticipate future utilization of a group based on past utilization by applying trend factor, the rate at which direct and indirect medical costs are changing.
Keywords:  detrending, see
(see Detrending)
The process of collecting periodic device status information for purposes of subsequent graphic display and analysis.
A reading of the variation in the measurement of data over no less than three data measurement intervals.