Medical College of Georgia

Glanceable dashboard takes a measure of physician communication

Published in Physician Law Weekly, October 29th, 2008

Much like a dashboard gives a good read on how your car is doing, researchers hope they'll soon give physicians a better idea of how they are doing with patients.

Glanceable data is available for stock market reports, the weather and a growing array of data consumers want in rapid, succinct fashion. "We are moving fast and we want data fed to us in a way we can process without thinking about it," says Dr. Peggy Wagner, research director for the Department of Family Medicine in the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine. But it made her think: Why not have a globe on every doctor's desk that says how they are doing from the patient's perspective'

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2008-10-29)

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