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Quality Assurance
Experts seek more use of data in healthcare
June 11th, 2004
Health care could become more data driven, and more of it is not always better, a Dartmouth expert says. Dr. John Wennberg directs the Center for Evaluative Clinical Science at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, and edits The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which examines the use of medical resources around the country. He spoke to health care administrators at the invitation of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota this week in Fargo and Bismarck. "The idea is to stimulate discussion on reality-based health care delivery," said Larry Gauper, a vice president of Noridian Mutual Insurance Co., the parent company of the Blues,...
Source: Health Business Week (2004-06-11)
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