Hospital Performance Monitor^SM

Hospital Performance Monitor from WebMD Health Services uses the same quality indicators that consumers, health plans, and employers use to evaluate and select hospitals. The product is based on a rich database of hospital quality data that WebMD acquires from a broad array of federal and state resources. To ensure apples-to-apples comparison and fair, credible results, we standardize the data and apply industry-accepted severity adjustment algorithms and nationally-recognized quality outcomes and process measures.

Benefits

• Provides hospitals with the same performance data that health plans and employers use for contracting and consumer-facing decision support.
• Highlights issues and opportunities that may warrant immediate action to improve the hospital's performance profile and competitive status.
• Enables hospitals to perform market analysis to explore opportunities for growth.
• Helps hospitals manage costs by evaluating how the organization is spending relative to peer institutions.

Hospital Performance Monitor is an easy-to-use online tool that lets you quickly analyze how your hospital compares to peer organizations on a wide range of cost and quality indicators. Severity-adjusted hospital comparisons can be made by service line, diagnosis, and procedure, including:

• Mortality and complications.
• Direct and total costs, length of stay, and charges at the hospital and physician level.
• DRG, MDC, and clinical specialty, or customized user-defined groupings.
• Market share analysis.
• Comparisons on any field available in the data set, such as attending and operating MD or insurance plan.

Additional modules for advanced performance monitoring, benchmark comparison, and specialty care databases can also be added to Hospital Performance Monitor for specialized analysis.