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40 CARE DELIVERY Yelp Adds ER Wait Times, Other Data Points for 4,600 Hospitals By Emily Rappleye D ata on emergency room wait times, quality of physician communication and fines paid by nursing homes may soon be as accessible as reviews of your local taco stop or burger joint. Customer-review site Yelp and ProPublica are teaming up to bring research and CMS data from 4,600 hospitals, 15,000 nursing homes and 6,300 dialysis centers to Yelp's review pages, according to e Washington Post. While patients have always been able to write reviews on medical practices on Yelp, the partnership with ProPublica will add supplemental information. According to the report, the information will be similar to that provided on Medicare's Hospital Compare site, but Yelp executives believe their familiar platform and presentation will make the information more palatable for consumers. "We're taking data that otherwise might live in some government PDF that's hard to find and we're putting it in a context where it makes sense for people who may be in the middle of making critical decisions," Luther Lowe, Yelp vice president of policy, said in the report. In exchange for providing information to Yelp and its users, ProPublica will have access to Yelp's healthcare reviews to use for news research, according to the report. n AMA to Revamp Curriculum at 20 More Medical Schools By Emily Rappleye T he American Medical Association plans to triple the size of its Acceler- ating Change in Medical Education Consortium, an initiative aimed at signifi- cantly redesigning undergraduate medical education. The program initially funded 11 medical schools with $1 million each over five years to develop innovative medical school cur- riculum that better prepares students for the changing healthcare delivery system. The second phase will add up to 20 schools to the consortium to build on the curricula of the 11 founding schools. The AMA will provide $1.5 million in funding over the next three years for this phase. Interested schools can submit proposals surrounding the several different themes that include developing flexible, competen- cy based pathways; developing novel ways to work with healthcare delivery systems; using technology to support curriculum and assessment; and finding ways to shape future leaders, among other themes. Propos- als are due Sept. 16. n