URAC progressing with web site accreditation.
Don Nielsen, MD, senior vice president of quality leadership with the Chicago-based American Hospital Association says nearly every hospital now has a web site that includes qualitative and clinical information. But he says the overwhelming number of health care sites and the disparity in the quality of that information have led the general public to question the reliability of that information. URAC--the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission in Washington, DC--is seeking to change that. URAC's accreditation standards for health web sites now are in the final phases of development.
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