HELP ME FIND A ‘GOOD’ DOCTORCharles Ornstein

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How did you pick your doctor?

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We all want the “Top Doctor”

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But…

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Can we use data to solve this?

YES!** With sufficient caveats + context

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What data can tell us

• Whether our doctor has financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs we take.

• How our doctor’s prescribing habits compares to other doctors in the same specialty and state.

• What services and treatments our doctor performs most and how those compare.

• Who is in our doctor’s referral network.

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Dollars for Docs

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Searching for a doctor

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What we found

Dr. Jon W. Draud, the medical director of psychiatric and addiction medicine at two Tennessee hospitals, earned more than $1 million for delivering promotional talks and consulting for seven drug companies in less than four years.

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Personalized checklist for patients

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More of the checklist

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OK, so my doctor gets pharma $$...

Is he/she prescribing me drugs based on that?

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Prescriber Checkup

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Treatment Tracker

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How your doctor compares

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What we need

•Data on all payments from drug/device companies to doctors.

•Characteristics of each provider’s practice (age range/gender of patients, illnesses, dual eligible status)

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What we need

•Opportunities for meaningful physician comments with the data—both to correct errors and provide context.

•Meaningful patient interaction and questions.

•What am I missing?

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Final thoughts

• Industry data sets are intended for industry audiences. But why stop there? @ProPublica makes the data *useful* for everyone. #medx

•Consumers trying to get the best health care for themselves and their loved ones need better data. #medx

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