Ratings and Rankings !!
Nurses and other caregivers
In The Health Care Blog, Chiara Bell writes about how everyone is chasing after doctor and hospital ratings and why it is may be relevant to rate the most important members of the health care profession --- nurses, certified caregivers and home health aides. She wonders how it is that the largest segment of health care professionals, who provide a majority of the direct, hands-on patient care have been left out of the Health 2.0 ratings explosionals.
The Health 2.0 movement is all about the Internet’s power to transform the relationships between patients and doctors, hospitals, insurers and each other. However, there seems to be an oversupply of sites that are all doing slight variations on the same thing. There are dozens of online physican directories, health-specific search sites or health “portals” with some sort of attached social community. And plenty of sites that aim to help patients find and often compare doctors and hospitals.
The US is of course big on ratings, but this trend has not yet caught on in India. Whatever little activity in this area is restricted a few awards programs that were launched by a couple of media companies with healthcare properties. But consumer ratings programs could make a huge impact in a country where there is so little regulation. It is time, some of our Health 2.0 companies started doing some serious stuff in this space.
In The Health Care Blog, Chiara Bell writes about how everyone is chasing after doctor and hospital ratings and why it is may be relevant to rate the most important members of the health care profession --- nurses, certified caregivers and home health aides. She wonders how it is that the largest segment of health care professionals, who provide a majority of the direct, hands-on patient care have been left out of the Health 2.0 ratings explosionals.
The Health 2.0 movement is all about the Internet’s power to transform the relationships between patients and doctors, hospitals, insurers and each other. However, there seems to be an oversupply of sites that are all doing slight variations on the same thing. There are dozens of online physican directories, health-specific search sites or health “portals” with some sort of attached social community. And plenty of sites that aim to help patients find and often compare doctors and hospitals.
The US is of course big on ratings, but this trend has not yet caught on in India. Whatever little activity in this area is restricted a few awards programs that were launched by a couple of media companies with healthcare properties. But consumer ratings programs could make a huge impact in a country where there is so little regulation. It is time, some of our Health 2.0 companies started doing some serious stuff in this space.
posted by Srivathsan @ 10:38 AM
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