'TripAdvisor' for hospitals to rank Hong Kong healthcare outcomes
18-May-16, South China Morning Post
An online platform to rank Hong Kong hospitals’ quality of care based on patient reviews has been launched. HospitalAdvisor.org.hk covers all 41 public and 11 private hospitals in the city and seeks to empower patients to make more considered decisions about their hospital care.
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The website, which is available in English, traditional and simplified Chinese, was developed through a collaboration between the Harvard Global Health Institute, Hong Kong University’s School of Public Health, and local non-profit social policy think tank The Zubin Foundation.
It is the brainchild of Shalini Mahtani, co-founder of The Zubin Foundation, whose first child, Zubin, died suddenly at the age of three from pneumococcal meningitis in May 2009. Motivated to make some good come from her son’s death, Mahtani created Hospital Advisor to empower patients with more information on Hong Kong’s hospitals.