Provider rating systems: Yea or nay?
From Medicare's Hospital Compare to ProPublica's Surgeon Scorecard, provider rating systems abound. But are they truly useful? And moreover, are they always accurate?
Startup ratings site CareDash lands $2M in financing, with no need for VC
CareDash is profitable, thanks in no small part to finding a somewhat untapped niche in the physician ratings world: low- to middle-income communities.
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Healthcare’s struggle with social media continues, but help may be forthcoming
Many hospitals still refuse to acknowledge the importance of patient reviews and ratings on social media, but even for those that do, there are challenges. We highlight one effort that may help to change that.
Yelp adds data on healthcare quality, ER wait times
Yelp listings for more than 25,000 hospitals, nursing homes and dialysis clinics got a whole lot more useful, as the ratings site added data on such things as emergency room waiting times, readmission rates, fines paid for safety violations and even how well physicians communicate with patients.