title: HMO's data-driven cardiac network brings new meaning to provider competition.
abstract: Ensuring quality of cardiac care: Providers hoping to join Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield's cardiac care network not only had to pass a stringent and complicated data-driven scorecard process, but once they were in they had to collect data on 400 different elements on CABG and PTCA. Here's how the data-intensive program works, plus some useful cardiology benchmarks on performance, complication rates, mortality, and more.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D016507:Cardiology Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009820:Ohio; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care