July 2019 – Onpoint is pleased to welcome Beth Virnig, PhD, MPH, to Onpoint’s Board of Directors. She brings a broad and varied background spanning health services research, academia, and administration. Her deep health policy expertise combined with strong leadership skills will be a valuable ad...
July 2019 – Onpoint is excited to announce the launch of the enhanced user interface for our flagship data integration solution, Onpoint CDM. Offering a configurable dashboard, drillable reporting, and enhanced workflows, Onpoint CDM makes it easier and more efficient for Onpoint’s clients and da...
July 2019 – The Onpoint Revolution cycling team celebrated this year’s Father’s Day weekend by kicking off our fifth consecutive outing at the Trek Across Maine. The Trek, an annual, three-day, 180-mile cycling journey throughout the state of Maine is the largest fundraiser of its kind in the nat...
July 2019 – Early this spring, a team from Onpoint gathered to volunteer for the East End Community School Garden in our home city of Portland, Maine. Team members were not afraid to get their hands dirty in support our community members – helping local students weed, mulch, plant, and water prod...
For nearly two decades, Onpoint Health Data has been building the databases that inform healthcare transformation initiatives across the country. Onpoint CDM (Claims Data Manager) is our proven and powerful suite of data integration, enrichment, and warehousing services. The system provides tools...
This past February, Onpoint staff participated in the “Opioid Epidemic Measurement” webinar hosted by the APCD Council. We had the pleasure of introducing two researchers using data from APCDs supported by Onpoint: Minnesota and Vermont. Pamela Mink, PhD, MPH, from the Minnesota Department of He...
In 2013, Rhode Island launched its statewide APCD, HealthFacts RI, kicking off the creation of a key data source to help understand and transform healthcare delivery across the state. With nearly eight years of data now in house, the state continues to put its data to innovative use, from program...
Lead Health Data Analyst, David Jorgenson, MS, joined Onpoint with expertise in analytic methods for healthcare policy and health services research, quickly growing into a leadership role. David’s work spans a variety of client projects and subject areas, enabling him to contribute his expertise ...
At Onpoint, we remain dedicated to assisting our clients and their user communities in making the most out of their available APCD data. Through collaborative webinars, our staff are working to enhance the knowledge base of end users through technical walk-throughs and by sharing lessons learned,...
Presenter: Adam Bakopolus, Health Data AnalystIntended Audience: Onpoint Data Users APCDs are invaluable resources to policymakers and researchers alike. Given the complexity of the data that these important resources contain, however, they also can require a certain level of skill to interpret ...
January 2019 -- Onpoint is excited to build on its partnership with HealthInsight Oregon as the data aggregation and reporting contractor for Oregon's Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) initiative. HealthInsight is a nonprofit, community-based healthcare consulting organization dedicated to i...
January 2019 -- This past November, HealthShare Exchange (HSX), the health information exchange for Delaware Valley (southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey) and the data aggregator for the Greater Philadelphia Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) initiative, issued its first reportin...
January 2019 -- Onpoint’s Data Operations team is responsible for guiding submitters through the rigorous submission requirements and data intake process across Onpoint’s diverse range of clients. Key Operations staff have more than 75 years of combined experience working at Onpoint and with our ...
January 2019 -- Washington HealthCareCompare, the award-winning consumer transparency website based on data from the WA-APCD, was recently refreshed with a new round of data and expanded measures. The website’s December refresh makes data available through calendar year 2017, providing consumers ...
September 2018 -- The National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) announced this month that it has awarded its distinguished “Innovation in Data Dissemination Award” to the State of Washington for its Washington HealthCareCompare website (see Figures 1-2 below). Presented annually b...