August 27, 2015
The Long Island-based hospital network began posting online ratings of its doctors this week, making it the first such organization in the metropolitan area to do so, hospital officials said.
It joins hospitals such as the Cleveland Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Stanford Health Care and Piedmont Healthcare. When University of Utah Health Care began posting ratings in 2012, it said it was the first hospital in the country to do so.
Most doctors’ online ratings are positive and studies show that consumers say doctor ratings influence their behavior, says IHPI member David Hanauer, a professor at U-M's Medical School who has studied online ratings.
Consumers, he said, “pick their televisions this way. They pick their cars this way. Why wouldn’t you want this information for doctors?”