Healthline Networks has created comprehensive, data-rich online learning environments to help consumers research and make informed decisions about serious surgical procedures. Leveraging Healthline’s Medically Guided™ semantic search, Healthline has incorporated CMS and FDA data to enhance their rich information resources (articles, videos, 3D animations, tools, interactive BodyMaps) and present consumers with the most comprehensive online surgical procedure resource available today.
Healthline Surgical Procedure Guides (SPG) analyze and interpret MedPar data to help consumers understand what events and incurred charges they can expect throughout each stage of the patient pathway — from preparation, to surgery, through recovery and rehabilitation. To personalize this experience, the data is immediately localized based on the user’s zip code. SPG also applies algorithms that process and summarize Hospital Compare data to provide consumers with “quick scores” that rank performance and charge trends for their hospitals against local, state, and national averages. FDA news and alerts for contextually relevant procedure data complement Healthline’s reference and education materials. Healthline’s SPG aggregates, examines and translates public health data into meaningful and user-friendly information to help consumers make more informed, confident health care decisions about serious medical procedures. SPG is the newest offering in Healthline’s suite of products – including Symptom Search, Drug Search, SmartAnswers and BodyMaps – decision support tools that reach more than 100M consumers each month when and where they are searching for trusted, credible health information.