TY - GEN
T1 - MediQoC
AU - Simmonds, Maureen
AU - Zikos, Dimitrios
AU - Hegden, Sreehari
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/6/29
Y1 - 2016/6/29
N2 - In order to respond to recent changes in health services provision, where patients are members of a consumer driven healthcare system, we developed MediQoC (Medicare Quality of Care), a data driven web portal for Medicare patients and their caregivers. MediQoC grants access to personalized, data-driven information about hospitals, and quality of care indicators. Utilizing a Medicare claims dataset, the portal enables patients, caregivers and other stakeholders the ability to locate high-quality hospital services which are appropriate for specific symptoms and medical procedures. MediQoC provides to the user a list of eligible hospitals, and outputs statistics on hospital stay attributes and quality of care indicators, including the prevalence of hospital acquired conditions. Each hospital is ranked with a percentile rank score on the basis the aforementioned in-hospital attributes and quality indicators; the ranking results are visualized on maps via MediQoC-viz, the visualization module of the portal. A panel of three clinical experts evaluated the portal and provided feedback related to function, and data utilization and legal aspects.
AB - In order to respond to recent changes in health services provision, where patients are members of a consumer driven healthcare system, we developed MediQoC (Medicare Quality of Care), a data driven web portal for Medicare patients and their caregivers. MediQoC grants access to personalized, data-driven information about hospitals, and quality of care indicators. Utilizing a Medicare claims dataset, the portal enables patients, caregivers and other stakeholders the ability to locate high-quality hospital services which are appropriate for specific symptoms and medical procedures. MediQoC provides to the user a list of eligible hospitals, and outputs statistics on hospital stay attributes and quality of care indicators, including the prevalence of hospital acquired conditions. Each hospital is ranked with a percentile rank score on the basis the aforementioned in-hospital attributes and quality indicators; the ranking results are visualized on maps via MediQoC-viz, the visualization module of the portal. A panel of three clinical experts evaluated the portal and provided feedback related to function, and data utilization and legal aspects.
KW - Decision Making
KW - Information System
KW - Medicare
KW - Patient Participation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85005951163&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2910674.2910715
DO - 10.1145/2910674.2910715
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85005951163
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - 9th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2016 - Conference Proceedings
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 29 June 2016 through 1 July 2016
ER -