title: What are the best ways to get physicians the data they want and need?
abstract: Profiling is not a dirty word at Sentara Healthcare. From internal practice reports to hospital and HMO data, physicians increasingly are burdened by the information they have to provide to a variety of sources and the reports that come back to them afterwards. Adding physician profiling to that pile would be about as welcome as a mosquito bite. But at Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, VA, physicians are uniformly happy about a new profiling effort.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000145:classification; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D014768:Virginia