Doctors are not pleased, but cash is a good means and the Internet, there has long been commonplace. patients can now assess their physicians.
The doctors keep the enthusiasm in check. It was “was inevitable that something is” obviously, “said Berlin Medical Association President Günther Jonitz. While transparency is extremely important in health care. But they would soon find out that a review of doctors by patients about the real quality of care is not much informative.
health insurance, however praise her project as a key “building block for more quality” in medical care. As of now that is in Germany to find a good doctor no longer rely on tips from friends. Together with the Bertelsmann Foundation and the associations of the most patient and consumer organizations launched the fund AOK and Barmer GEK on Tuesday in an Internet portal for office-based physician evaluation.
These can be used not only to pass the 30 million insured both cash their experiences with doctors. customers can use the results of all – including those for which insurers are involved (yet) on the so-called doctor-Navigator
.93 percent of Germans visited at least once a year a doctor and 40 percent would even intervene in more than four surgeries, said the vice chairman of the Barmen GEK, Rolf-Ulrich Schlenker. “There is no greater experience, and we want to raise it.” The Navigator is a “wonderful tool” for patient orientation: non-commercial, scientific monitoring, tamper-proof and protected data .Even the doctors who met the debate initiated by the AOK project with protest could benefit, said Jürgen Graalmann from AOK-Bundesverband. They received so eventually “systematic feedback and support for internal quality management.
The portal is directed “to the patient, but not against the doctors” assured Graalmann. So you waive school grades and rank lists of supposedly the best medicine. The questionnaires were designed with the participation of scientists and doctors, anyone can search for specific criteria in it that were important to him. Free fields for “insulting criticism” there is not, moreover – in other than in comparable portals – ensures that no patient a doctor evaluated several times. And everyone’s allowed to comment on his personal data. He may even be completely blocked -. Which then allows also very critical conclusions.