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Colorado introduces online hospital report card
EHR Connection, December 10, 2007
Colorado has a new Web site, called the Colorado Hospital Report Card that is intended to help consumers make more informed choices with respect to their healthcare.
The Web site is the result of legislation that requires Colorado hospitals to report on clinical measures, thereby allowing consumers to compare their options with respect to healthcare services. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment selected the Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) to create and maintain the report card.
The CHA collects and analyzes discharge claims data from all general hospitals in Colorado, comparing individual hospitals against the state average for individual quality measures. It bases scores on those comparisons.
"The Colorado Hospital Report Card has the primary purpose of ensuring that statewide hospital data and clinical outcomes are made available to the general public in a clear and usable manner," according to the Web site's home page. "The Colorado Hospital Report Card will utilize standardized quality and clinical outcome measures that are endorsed by national organizations, with established standards to measure the performance of healthcare providers and hospitals."
Click here to visit the Colorado Hospital Report Card.
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