Archive for January 30th, 2007
Rate Your Cardiologist
January 30, 2007
Vimo.com is a relatively new Web 2.0 offering which is in the Consumer-directed healthcare space. Specifically, it gives pricing for medical procedures and allows users to rate physicians and hospitals. For a heart month promotion (an to increase the number of ratings on the site), they are offering to donate $1 for each physician rating to the American Heart Association. The amount of data pulled from various sources is impressive. Cost data by procedure including average price, negotiated price, whether the hospital is above or below the average. For physicians there are ratings but also integration with Google maps for location. Nice job overall.
My question is, what is the value of these ratings to consumers? Will consumers embrace this practice the way they have for consumer items? Or will these rating sites become places for complaints to be aired rather than the best physicians and hospitals to be spotlighted? The competition between rating sites (see for instance, Revolution Health) will be worth watching. Will there eventually be a site which aggregates comments from these rating sites?
Share this:eHealth Conference in Montreal in May 2007
January 30, 2007
This conference, sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Health Information is currently accepting abstracts for presentations. Topics include EHR, Privacy, Security, Ethical & Legal Considerations, E-nabled Access, Human Factors, Innovation and Sustainability.
I have not seen many conferences which address EHRs also discuss the issue of sustainability. Human factors, such as, usability, is also a plus.
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