Future of benchmarking: more data, more sharing, and better patient care

Automated systems that provide whatever regulatory information is needed when it is needed; sharing of data to improve quality; data mined for specific groups of patients: Those are just a few of the trends predicted by health care experts asked to comment on the future of benchmarking and data strategies. Such improvements are needed; many hospitals continually run into problems when it comes to finding the right data sets for targeted patient groups.