Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality reveals individual clinic reports

WCHQ has been leading the way for more than a decade in physician public reporting. Most of the reporting, however, was done at the entire group level not the individual business unit. Today WCHQ released it's individual clinic report. It is possible for any patient to see how their doctor team is performing on critical quality indicators such as cancer screening. This exciting new development adds to the already important stature of WCHQ's national leadership on the issue of public reporting.

Recently in Health Affairs http://www.createvalue.org/blog/post/?bid=305 Dr. Lamb has shown that public reporting of physician performance improves quality. Now that we have even more granular performance information by individual clinic each clinic can now set new targets reaching for the benchmark acheived by the best clinic in the state.

Public reporting continues to push us further toward higher quality and lower cost. Congratulations to WCHQ and the providers who have agreed to publicly report their performance. It's about time every doctor in the state should be reporting as well. The following link will take you to the report.

http://www.wchq.org/reporting/results.php?site_level_flag=1&measure_id=69