title: QIOs use hospital-supplied data in quality improvement efforts.
abstract: By early next year, consumers will be able to view on a government website how hospitals compare to each other on several clinical indicators. But that data is already proving to be beneficial to quality improvement organizations (QIOs) as they work with hospitals to improve performance.
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D033181:Information Dissemination; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014861:Washington