OnlyBoth Enhances Benchmarking Tools

PITTSBURGH (January 29, 2019)— OnlyBoth Inc. has enhanced its proprietary evaluation tools that leverage Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) performance measures.

To further highlight health care performance, the company has launched three new evaluation engines, complementing its original benchmarking engine, designed to meet health care industry and consumer demand for comprehensive provider comparisons.

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based engines enable distinct comparative searches for thousands of hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, home health and hospice agencies nationwide at benchmine.com. Four engine types, covering seven health care sectors, give rise to 28 different ways to bring unprecedented data-driven transparency to U.S. health care performance. Insights are developed using CMS data, which is updated frequently.

“To enable provider performance transparency, we rethought the entire benchmarking process and developed an innovative means to analyze the relevant facility data and retrieve critical performance insights for various health care sectors,” said Raul Valdes-Perez, PhD, OnlyBoth Inc. CEO and cofounder. “By empowering users to make evaluations based on their exact needs, we deliver unique, previously unavailable insights for better care decision-making, at no cost.”

How it works: The user chooses an appropriate engine based on the goal of the search. Spanning seven health care sectors, patients use facility performance results to make informed decisions about care, and providers use the insights to determine exactly how they measure up to peers or competitors to motivate improvement in strategy, planning and execution. The evaluation engines provide comparative insights in plain English, a welcome solution for a traditionally complex, data-rich process.

“The collective offering of OnlyBoth’s reimagined benchmarking engines demonstrates a commitment to understanding provider performance and delivering transparency to advance care quality across health care environments,” said Christine K. Cassel, MD, MACP, a visiting professor and presidential chair at the University of California, San Francisco, and OnlyBoth Inc. advisory board member.

The proprietary evaluation tools leveraging CMS performance measures are a much-needed complement to existing solutions that highlight health care facility performance, according to the company. Websites like Yelp and Google capture individual instances of patient experience, while U.S. News and World Report uses its own proprietary scoring system to convey a specific level of performance. By integrating OnlyBoth evaluation engines into their resource strategies, decision-makers can gain extensive, up-to-date information about performance through unique, comparative insights.

Named one of Gartner’s five cool vendors in Analytics for 2016, the OnlyBoth technology transforms public data into concise, easy-to-understand statements about how facilities are excelling and where they can improve.

For more information, visit benchmine.com and blog.onlyboth.com.