NetDoc recently combined data on hospital quality outcomes - as reported by hospitals to the Department of Health & Human Services - with Google Maps to provide a diagnostic snapshot of hospital quality. In grading each individual hospital, the tool combines data on heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical infection prevention to create an overall "clinical quality metric" for each hospital.
This website is just one more indicator of the slow shift towards transparency in the U.S. healthcare system. Information is the mediator of free market competition and an increase in transparency in hospital performance will play an important role in improving overall quality of care. Patients will be able to make more informed decisions about providers and hospitals will emulate positive deviants in the market to improve outcomes and stay competitive.
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