By: Joshua Verville, Board Officer, National Association of Regulatory Administration
The internet has had a profound impact on the everyday lives of people. We have enormous amounts of information available to search which is accessible by computers, phones, and yes soon eyewear! This proliferation of accessible information via the internet has created a platform for increasing transparency efforts from restaurant grades in L.A to roll over safety on www.safercar.gov. Recently, Yelp launched a new feature that adds open healthcare data and compliance information for over 16,000 nursing homes for consumers to review. These transparency websites provide consumers with information about a service or product in order to allow the consumer to make an informed choice about what they are buying. This is no different or more important than when parents are searching for child care providers across the U.S.