Now, one can take guidance from the Yelp app for selecting a new nursing home, doctor or even emergency room. The website and app is working with nonprofit newsroom ProPublica to supply government data for important information regarding health care providers. As per reports, the data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is divided into useful categories to provide users more information.

According to health experts, the data could help consumers and people can find the information through the website of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. As per Art Caplan, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, it is the first step in a movement to make patients more aware and provide them more information.

According to him, “You’re going to be looking a little bit less at the diplomas on the wall and a little bit more on the useful outcome metrics”.

The information could be useful, however Caplan said that one should know that selecting a hospital or nursing home is different from finding a favorite restaurant for the reason that customers usually don’t have much options regarding what to do in the event of an emergency, when it comes to a hospital.

He said referring to emergency rooms, “It also isn’t a market the way going to restaurants or buying cars is. We don’t really have the ability to always pick where we’re going to get our care”.