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HealthGrades partners with Google
Quality Improvement Monitor, March 7, 2008
HealthGrades, Inc., an independent medical ratings company, is partnering with Google to help patients find the best providers. The company will make independent information on doctors and hospitals, based on quality and cost, accessible via Google Health -- a new product that is currently being tested in a pilot with the Cleveland Clinic, according to a HealthGrades press release.
"HealthGrades' goal is to guide Americans to better healthcare," Kerry Hicks, HealthGrades' CEO, said in a press release. "For researching healthcare, more Americans turn to Google to start their search than any other source, so we are proud to be providing Google users with independent, objective quality ratings and cost information so that they can choose the best possible doctor and hospital."
HealthGrades maintains cost and quality reports for 700,000 physicians, nearly every practicing physician in the country. Reports include patient-satisfaction ratings, detailed education and training information, disciplinary action information, malpractice judgments (in 15 states), board certification, affiliated hospital quality ratings, comparisons to other physicians, specialty and national averages comparisons and more.
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