BC Advantage - 2012 Issue 7

Healthcare Public Reporting for the Consumer

By Kathy Terry, Ph.D., Senior Director, IPRO and Jaz Michael King, Chief Technology Officer, IPROPublic reporting is, for all purposes, a social sciences undertaking.  A consumer-oriented report on healthcare is intended to empower healthcare consumers; educate them on variability, choice and quality; and sell them on the fact that they can impact their own health by becoming better informed.Provider reporting is conversely geared toward stimulating quality improvement and/or measurement for payment reform purposes.  This immediately raises the dichotomy of providers needing the exact measurements upon which they are reimbursed contrasted with consumers who may need...

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