Description
Health care organizations have access to more quality data than ever, but turning that information into meaningful action can be challenging. Patients and families face a similar challenge when trying to understand publicly available information about hospital performance.
In this episode of Key in to Quality, Mayo Clinic experts discuss HealthLocator: https://www.healthlocator.org/, a free public resource designed to make hospital-quality information easier to find, understand and compare. HealthLocator brings together publicly available data on quality, patient experience and patient safety, helping users explore hospital performance and make more informed decisions about care.
The conversation also explores the What If Calculator, an interactive tool that allows health care organizations to model how changes in individual measures could affect domain scores and overall HealthLocator performance. By testing different scenarios, quality teams can better understand which measures are influencing results and where deeper investigation may be useful.
The episode emphasizes that data and analytics are starting points, not substitutes for clinical expertise and professional judgment. Effective improvement requires collaboration across quality, clinical, analytics and operational teams to understand what is happening behind the data, identify meaningful opportunities and ask better questions about how care can improve.
Ideal Audience: healthcare administrators and leaders including CEO, CAO/COO, CNO, CFO and CQOs, data scientists/analysts, those who work with CMS/regulatory data, quality and safety improvement professionals, marketing and brand professionals, and anyone interested.
Hosted by:
Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D. — https://www.linkedin.com/in/timorgenthaler/
Sheri Nemec — https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheryl-sheri-nemec-a627982a/
Guests:
Ben Pollock, PhD, Mayo Clinic
Dan Ubl, Mayo Clinic
Beth Pickering, Mayo Clinic
Guest Social Links/Handles (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook):
Ben Pollock, PhD, MSPH, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-pollock-phd-msph-3558339b/?isSelfProfile=false&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%...
Elizabeth Pickering, https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-pickering-41097747/?isSelfProfile=false&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3...
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Chapters:
0:00 Tomorrow’s Cure Preview and Episode Introduction
0:53 Turning Quality Goals Into Practical Decisions
3:38 Meet the Health Locator Expert Team
6:59 Why Mayo Clinic Created Health Locator
9:36 Finding and Comparing Hospitals Near You
11:17 Searching for Specialized Care and Procedures
12:29 How Health Locator Measures Hospital Quality
18:10 Introducing the What If Calculator
21:26 Prioritizing Quality Improvement With Scenario Modeling
23:03 Collaboration Behind the Health Locator Platform
25:22 Using Data to Drive Earlier Improvement
28:21 What’s Next for Health Locator
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