Comments on: My take: CPOE, VistA, doctor rating websites http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/my-take-cpoe-vista-doctor-rating.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/my-take-cpoe-vista-doctor-rating.html/comment-page-1#comment-83853 Anonymous Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/02/my-take-cpoe-vista-doctor-rating-websites.html#comment-83853 Vitals.com possibly has some good points, but they seem to have a number of data errors. That's not so bad, BUT they do not seem to have much interest in correcting them. They have no published phone number, and e-mails to them generate responses that are pretty vague.<br/><br/>One other issue is that doctors can be negatively flagged based on where they went to med school, or where they did their residency. Here's the problem: If a doctor is a pediatrician, why is it relevant if the cardiac surgery program or orthopedic program at their residency hospital got a poor rating? And moreover, if the residency was finished in 1978, of what relevance is that hospital's "star quality" rating in 2008, thirty years later! Vitals.com possibly has some good points, but they seem to have a number of data errors. That’s not so bad, BUT they do not seem to have much interest in correcting them. They have no published phone number, and e-mails to them generate responses that are pretty vague.

One other issue is that doctors can be negatively flagged based on where they went to med school, or where they did their residency. Here’s the problem: If a doctor is a pediatrician, why is it relevant if the cardiac surgery program or orthopedic program at their residency hospital got a poor rating? And moreover, if the residency was finished in 1978, of what relevance is that hospital’s “star quality” rating in 2008, thirty years later!

]]> By: Supremacy Claus http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/02/my-take-cpoe-vista-doctor-rating.html/comment-page-1#comment-83807 Supremacy Claus Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:29:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/02/my-take-cpoe-vista-doctor-rating-websites.html#comment-83807 The hunt is on. <br/><br/>Docs may have to live Saddam. Call a pharmacy with a cell phone, the world knows the number. Use only disposable ones. Live in a beat Nissan cab, driving from one spider hole to another, every night. Cook rice in their underwear. The hunt is on.

Docs may have to live Saddam. Call a pharmacy with a cell phone, the world knows the number. Use only disposable ones. Live in a beat Nissan cab, driving from one spider hole to another, every night. Cook rice in their underwear.

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