emergency vehicles respond late and when they reach the hospital, precious time is lost in understanding the patient trauma … victims in time, which can happen when the emergency wing of a hospital has advance information about the trauma before the … patient reaches the hospital. Most hospitals lack communication infrastructure that allows them to coordinate with emergency …

for Medicare recipients. The cost indicator includes Medicare charges; the quality of care indicators include hospital …

treated with the highest degree of confidentiality. In practice it proves difficult to achieve this goal. In a hospital … evaluated through manual cross-checks internally and by a group of external experts. Consequently, the hospital's data …