New Kind of Dashboard Emphasizes Collaboration Among Vendors
“Originally, a dashboard was a screen in front of a vehicle to deflect dirt, water, mud and snow. As vehicles evolved, “dashboard” came to mean the array of dials and gauges that kept track of the vehicle’s workings.
Enter the next permutation of the word: A 21st century IT dashboard is a computer-driven interface that gathers, organizes and presents information in easy-to-read, digestible form. Data are often displayed in graphic format, presenting a series of charts and gauges similar to a 20th century dashboard.
In health care, one of the most common uses of dashboard technology is for comparison — comparing clinical results of treatments, comparing hospital performance, comparing health plan offerings.
In the competitive world of health insurance, data for dashboard comparisons are usually delivered in a vacuum: Companies A, B and C provide information on their terms, in their language, and whoever is receiving the information has to make sense of it.”
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat, 7 July 2008
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