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A revolution took place last week in Germany, when the German federal government created something that had never been created before—a one-stop website providing details of quality outcomes data and patient satisfaction data from more than 1,700 hospitals across Germany. Here in the United States, consumers have long had a very wide range of informational resources to go to, with which to judge the quality outcomes and patient experiences of hospitals and health systems, though they have never been gathered together in a single place…