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Online tool provides snapshot of states' healthcare performance
EHR Connection, July 9, 2007
A new online tool provides state-specific performance information that assists in improving healthcare. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's State Snapshot tool condenses 129 quality measures into specific data that state governments can use to pinpoint which areas are succeeding and which need work. Stakeholders can log in to the tool and quickly see how their states are performing or underperforming.
The tool provides an indicator of each state's overall healthcare quality, compared to other states and its own past performance. It also shows how each state performs according to care settings, types of care, and clinical areas. It lists each state's strongest and weakest areas, and is based on data from the 2006 National Health Care Quality Report and the National Health Care Disparities Report. The tool is available at http://statesnapshots.ahrq.gov.
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