Mobile Apps for Management of Transparency-Mode Quality Report Cards on a Dashboard to Show the Performance of Case Mix Index for Hospitals in Taiwan (Preprint)
BACKGROUND A quality report card is a report generated by a third-party evaluator that rates the performance of a specific health care provider. A dashboard is required to explore based on three principles—(1)anytime, anywhere, at a glance;(2)minimal interruption to workflow; and (3) protecting entity privacy—and 3 design features—(1)geographical layout; (2) entity-level alert; and (3) real-time summary data, particularly using mobile Apps to explain. However, few were successfully demonstrated in the literature. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to demonstrate a quality report card that can be shown on Google maps to investigate the performance of case mix index(CMI) for hospitals in Taiwan. METHODS The CMI data(from Q3 2013 to Q2 2016) were obtained from the website of Taiwan National Health Issuance Administration(NHIA). A total of 217 hospitals are eligible based on the data are complete. We used scale quality indicators (1) to assess the quality of the study data; (2) to create a dashboard-type quality report card that can be traced on the Google maps; (3) to select the hospital level that performs better in the trend and competition of CMI. RESULTS We found that (1) the CMI data fit the predictable requirements rather well(Chi-square = 10.09, df= 10, p =0.77); (2) the dashboard of quality report card shows on Google maps with multidisciplinary functionalities; (3)the level that regional hospitals earn the merit of the performance better in the CMI Growth/Improvement. CONCLUSIONS The demonstration of a quality report card on CMI using Google maps can inspire other 44 quality indicators of NHIA in use for hospitals in the future. CLINICALTRIAL Not available