title: As CMS Opens the Data Vault, Entrepreneurs Build a How-to-Use-It Guide.
abstract: Having the data is one thing. Knowing how to use it is another. Applying its computational power to the data, a company called RowdMap puts providers into high-, medium-, and low-value buckets compared with peers in their markets, using specific benchmarks to show why outliers differ from the norm.
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Dalzell
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D016208:Databases, Factual; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States