The University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville is working to gather its patient outcomes statistic on a variety of conditions with the intention of making them public as part of an initiative to improve transparency.
The data will include mortality rates, complication rates, and infection information and will allow users to compare UVAMedicalCenter's number against national averages, Richard Shannon, MD, executive vice president for health affairs at UVA said in a Wednesday announcement, according to a report from The Daily Progress.
Dr. Shannon also said he expects a concerted effort to decrease hospital-acquired infections will be a major driver in cutting healthcare costs, and UVA has been making significant efforts to reduce HAIs, noting a drop in urinary tract infections from 166 instances in 2013 to just 21 in 2014.
The hospital expects to being rolling out the data in spring.