PITTSBURGH, Dec. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- OnlyBoth Inc.
announced today the appointment of Christine K. Cassel, MD, MACP, to its advisory
board. Previously the president and CEO of the National Quality
Forum, Dr. Cassel is a proponent of applying quality measurement
and public reporting to drive improvement in healthcare.
"Having been deeply entrenched in the quality of care movement
over the last two decades, I see how important transparency is to
performance improvement," Dr. Cassel said. "But transparency only
works if consumers and providers alike find the information
accessible and meaningful. Automated benchmarking technology
provides a clear means for providers to access comparative
performance data, and has the potential to change how consumers
access reliable provider performance data as they make choices
about care."
OnlyBoth Inc. uses the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services data to generate language-based insights about hospitals,
nursing homes, dialysis and rehab facilities, and various health
agencies in an automated, objective way at www.benchmine.com. By
focusing on certain performance outcomes, users can zero in on
strengths and weaknesses of a provider, and take proactive steps
for quality care provision.
Dr. Cassel has had a robust career in quality healthcare
advocacy. She's a visiting professor and presidential chair at the
University of California, San
Francisco, and was previously the planning dean of the
Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. She also held key government
advisory positions under presidents Barack
Obama (President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology) and Bill Clinton
(President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality
in the Health Care Industry).
Dr. Cassel will engage with OnlyBoth leaders on the
functionality of benchmarking insights on www.benchmine.com,
seek partnership opportunities with various organizations and
government entities, and help raise awareness of benchmarking in
healthcare to motivate performance improvement and patient-driven
outcomes.
"OnlyBoth has taken complex, publicly available data and turned
it into meaningful, insightful commentary for providers and
consumers. It's exciting to think about the potential of this
automated technology to transform healthcare benchmarking," Dr.
Cassel said.
"Our ultimate goal is to make a positive impact on all of
healthcare by enabling an unprecedented level of transparency into
provider performance," said OnlyBoth CEO Raul Valdes-Perez, PhD. "Christine's experience
in quality metrics is very valuable to our company as we further
the role of benchmarking in healthcare to motivate patients,
providers, and various organizations toward improvement."
About OnlyBoth
Pittsburgh-based OnlyBoth Inc.
offers complete performance transparency across multiple healthcare
environments through its unique Web-based benchmarking engine,
BenchMine.com. OnlyBoth® leverages current, rich data
and unique artificial intelligence technology to provide automated,
unbiased perspective in statement format for compare-and-contrast
focused decision-making. Named one of Gartner's 5 cool vendors in
Analytics for 2016, the technology transforms public data into
concise, easy-to-understand statements about how facilities are
excelling and where they can improve. Just as search engines
streamlined information-seeking, OnlyBoth revolutionizes
benchmarking of hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and
ultimately of all healthcare providers. For more information,
please visit https://BenchMine.com and
https://blog.onlyboth.com.
PR CONTACT
Yuliya Kutuzava
KNB Communications
203-504-8230, ext.131
https://www.benchmine.com
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