OnlyBoth Inc. Rethinks Healthcare Benchmarking to Deliver on Distinct Evaluation Needs
Four unique evaluation engines enable single-provider assessment, multiple-provider comparison, scoring & discovery search across seven healthcare sectors
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- OnlyBoth Inc. has launched three new evaluation engines, complementing its original benchmarking engine, designed to meet the healthcare industry and consumer demand for comprehensive provider comparisons. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based engines enable distinct comparative searches for thousands of hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, home health and hospice agencies nationwide at www.benchmine.com. Four engine types, covering seven healthcare sectors, give rise to 28 different ways to bring unprecedented data-driven transparency to U.S. healthcare performance.
"To enable provider performance transparency, we rethought the entire benchmarking process and developed an innovative means to analyze the relevant facility data and retrieve critical performance insights for various healthcare sectors," said Raul Valdes-Perez, PhD, OnlyBoth Inc. CEO and cofounder. "By empowering users to make evaluations based on their exact needs, we deliver unique, previously unavailable insights for better care decision-making, at no cost."
OnlyBoth Inc. uses the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data—updated frequently—to generate language-based insights about healthcare facilities in an efficient, objective way. The user chooses an appropriate engine based on the goal of the search:
- A user can Assess a specific facility, hospital, or healthcare agency to see how it stands out compared to others nearby and nationwide: How is this facility doing? Where could it improve? What has changed? What's best in class?
- If users are more interested in direct provider comparison, they can Compare two or more facilities—e.g., across an entire county—on quality measures, characteristics and ratings. The results highlight the highest scored attributes in green "thumbs up" copy, while the lower scores, conveying the need for improvement, appear in "thumbs down" red content. Check-box options let users reduce the data shown, to focus on key differentiators.
- The Score search expresses comparative performance of a facility through an objective scoring system developed by OnlyBoth, Inc. The scores indicate how well a facility or agency stands out compared to peers over a broad range of performance criteria.
- An advanced search is available through Discover, where users can seek facility performance-based results based on care outcomes and quality attributes of their choice.
The evaluation engines provide comparative insights in plain English, a welcome solution for a traditionally complex, data-rich process. Spanning seven healthcare sectors, patients use facility performance results to make informed decisions about care, and providers use the insights to determine exactly how they measure up to peers or competitors to motivate improvement in strategy, planning, and execution.
"The collective offering of OnlyBoth's reimagined benchmarking engines demonstrates a commitment to understanding provider performance and delivering transparency to advance care quality across healthcare environments," said Christine K. Cassel, MD, MACP, a visiting professor and presidential chair at the University of California, San Francisco, and OnlyBoth Inc. advisory board member.
The proprietary evaluation tools leveraging CMS performance measures are a much-needed complement to existing solutions that highlight healthcare facility performance. Websites like Yelp and Google capture individual instances of patient experience, while U.S. News and World Report uses its own proprietary scoring system to convey a specific level of performance. By integrating OnlyBoth evaluation engines into their resource strategies, decision-makers can gain extensive, up-to-date information about performance through unique, comparative insights.
About OnlyBoth
Pittsburgh-based OnlyBoth Inc. offers complete performance transparency across multiple healthcare environments through its unique Web-based evaluation engines at BenchMine.com. OnlyBoth® leverages current, rich data and unique artificial intelligence technology to provide automated, unbiased perspective in statement format for compare-and-contrast focused decision-making. Named one of Gartner's 5 cool vendors in Analytics for 2016, the technology transforms public data into concise, easy-to-understand statements about how facilities are excelling and where they can improve. Just as search engines streamlined information-seeking, OnlyBoth revolutionizes benchmarking and evaluation of hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, home health and hospice agencies. For more information, please visit https://BenchMine.com and https://blog.onlyboth.com.
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