Planning for the arrival of a new baby brings questions and decisions about the type of hospital care that is desired for the mother and the newborn. Parents-to-be will find a wealth of new information on the Wisconsin Hospital Association’s CheckPoint Web site (www.wiCheckPoint.org) helpful as they partner with their physician and hospital in anticipation of their baby’s birth.
This latest, and one of the largest, releases of information builds on the commitment Wisconsin hospitals made in 2004 with the launch of the public reporting program, CheckPoint (www.wiCheckPoint.org), to make health care transparency, quality and safety top priorities.
Nearly 60 Wisconsin hospitals now provide information to CheckPoint through the PeriData.Net platform about their birthing services, as well as hospital-specific results on seven quality indicators associated with the birthing process.
PeriData.Net® is a secure, web-based, statewide platform used by 84 birth hospitals to record maternal and infant birth data on over 92% of births. The platform was developed and funded by Wisconsin birth hospitals, the Wisconsin Association of Perinatal Care and the Center for Urban Population Health. A grant from the UW Wisconsin Partnership Fund expanded PeriData.Net® to small rural birth hospitals.
"The PeriData.Net information system is used by hospitals throughout Wisconsin to monitor the quality of care that they provide to their patients," according to Ann Conway, executive director of the Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care. "The use of this information to publicly report hospital performance for consumers on WHA’s CheckPoint is exactly how we envisioned PeriData.Net should be used. We are pleased to have WHA as a partner.”
