idonotlikepeas, posts by tag: recommendation day - LiveJournal (original) (raw)

Wow, it's been ages since I did this. Yes, I'm dusting off my old try-to-write-in-journal motivators again. Pardon me if I'm a bit rusty.

A friend of mine pointed me at a site called The Healthcare Scoop recently, and this thing is neat. It appears to be an attempt to apply late 2000s web-based social and technological improvements to the evaluation of health care. Basically, all the customer review/rating/social networking/user-generated type of stuff that you're used to seeing about most products? Well, it's trying to do that for health care services. Which is an area where the personal experience of the individual receiving the care is, in a lot of ways, tremendously more important than, for instance, which brand of lamp lasts longer.

See, your comfort level with your doctor/nurse/psychiatrist/hospital/etc has a huge impact on your care, for a lot of reasons. If you're comfortable, you're more willing to share information with those people that might help them figure out what's wrong with you. And you're more willing to take their advice and trust their recommendations. That's why I think it's really neat that someone's trying to build a system to capture /that/ data, rather than more anonymous statistics about number of patients treated and so on. (Not that that information is unimportant either.)

So, check it out! Seems to be a few bits missing still, but be kind to it; it's new. Go contribute some stories or something, if you've got any good ones.