title: What does it all mean? Making sense of health plan data.
abstract: With competition for enrollees reaching a fever pitch among health plans, calls are coming from many quarters for a reinvention of healthcare to focus on patients. That's producing a flood of information intended to help consumers compare plans and providers. What will consumers do with all the information? Will they understand it and use it?
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kertesz
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003256:Community Participation; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000592:standards*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D007255:Information Services / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011786:Quality Control; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States