Open Solutions

Thinking Outside the (Black) Box

Shedding light and sharing tools with the analytics community.

Onpoint was founded over 50 years ago as a trusted source of healthcare data. Over five decades, we have built a legacy of service to clients in the public and private sectors, working daily to deliver reliable data and transparent solutions that help make healthcare more effective and efficient. Our Open Solutions initiative is the latest in a long line of projects aimed at meeting our mission by providing transparency in a largely black-boxed industry where opaque methods can cloud explanations and cost public trust.

Open Solutions is part of Onpoint’s sustained push for transparency in health data analytics. By removing traditional barriers to analytic tools, we aim to empower the health data community to collaborate more effectively on shared challenges – and solutions. We look forward to providing a growing library of insights, tools, and resources in the coming years for the common good.

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Open SFE Grouper

Building episodes of care to better compare provider costs and shoppable procedures.

Onpoint is proud to release the logic that powers our proven grouper for analyzing high-interest episodes of care. This solution and its  related documentation are freely available under a Creative Commons license to expand the tools available to the analytics community.

What is the Service-Focused Episode Grouper?

The Service-Focused Episode (SFE) grouper is a healthcare analytics tool used to group medical services into episodes of care based on the type of procedure or services provided.

How Can Onpoint’s SFE Grouper Enrich Analysis?

Our SFE grouper can be used for a variety of different purposes, including comparative cost and performance reporting. In value-based care analyses, the SFE grouper has been used to compare utilization and the cost of common shoppable services across facilities and geographical regions to help guide patients to cost-effective providers.

How Can I Learn More?

For additional detail on the SFE grouper, simply download our overview (PDF).

For full detail regarding the open grouper’s methodology, logic, and code sets, use the form below to enter your information and receive the latest documentation automatically.

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