State, hospitals join up for outcomes data.
In Rhode Island, the hospitals are leading the charge. Suggest to hospitals that they should provide the public with quality data on outcomes, and many balk at the idea. Suggest that a state should adopt a requirement that they do so, and you might expect a full-fledged effort to thwart the legislation. But in Rhode Island, the hospitals not only welcomed the idea, they helped draft the legislation.
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