Last week the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) initiated a consumer web site.This website utilizes WCHQ data on Wisconsin doctors to help guide patients.Using an easy to understand conversational style they begin to understand doctor quality
The WCHQ has been working with RWJ as a member of the aligning forces for quality project (http://www.forces4quality.org/welcome). The focus of this project has been to deliver clearly understandable data to patients on the quality of care they can and are receiving in the doctors office and hospital. At www.wisconsinhealthreports.org, the healthcare performance information is presented for Bob and Helen who are the Wisconsin patients figuring out how to use the data to improve their chronic disease care.WCHQ has been publicly reporting physician performance data for the last 8 years and now is able to present this data in a way patients can begin to understand. The following Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article describes the work - http://www.jsonline.com/business/112982334.html
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