Health Grades Health Grades Health Guide Launch 09182006 Page 2
HealthGrades HealthGuide Release Page 2
Healthcare Optimization Tools
HealthGuide includes a wealth of healthcare informational and decision-support tools, including
preventive tools, healthcare risk assessments, calculators, drug checkers, articles on conditions and
chronic-disease management tools. One innovative tool called CompareYourCare was developed with a
some of the nation's leading medical experts and allows individuals to compare the care they are
receiving from doctor visits against an up-to-date database of evidence-based medicine, the standard of
care agreed upon by the medical community. The result is a personalized system for turning patients into
partners in their own care.
"Employers and health plans want to ensure that their employees and plan members not only have access
to healthcare decision-support tools, but actually use them," continued Brock. "In designing HealthGuide,
HealthGrades had the benefit of continually learning from the more than three million individuals that
visit HealthGrades' consumer Web site, HealthGrades.com, every month. From our consumer site, we
have unique insight into how individuals search for health information, what type of information matters
to them most, and how to display that information so that it is actionable and changes behavior."
More information on the new HealthGrades HealthGuide is available at
http://www.healthgrades.com/employers
.
About HealthGrades
Health Grades, Inc. (Nasdaq: HGRD) is the leading healthcare ratings organization, providing ratings and
profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians. Millions of consumers and many of the nation's
largest employers, health plans, and hospitals rely on HealthGrades' independent ratings and decision-
support resources to make healthcare decisions based on the quality of care. More information on the
company can be found at
http://www.healthgrades.com
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