December 2020 – Onpoint was recently selected by Embedded Healthcare, a fast-growing health IT start-up based in Washington, DC, to support its back-end data integration and analytic-services needs. Embedded Healthcare is focused on lowering the cost of care by leveraging behavioral economics mod...
December 2020 – Over the past weeks, the number of new COVID-19 infections and deaths has risen to record highs in the United States. Information about the development and spread of the coronavirus continues to be critical for planning efforts at every level of healthcare administration – from fe...
December 2020 – This fall, Onpoint kicked off our annual campaign to support the United Way of Greater Portland, Maine, and the organization’s work helping those in need across our community. Representatives from the United Way and Portland’s Preble Street Resource Center joined our kick-off rall...
September 2020 – For the past 30 years, the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) has presented its Elliot M. Stone “Award of Excellence in Health Leadership” to “individuals who represent the highest ideals in data collection, analysis, or outcomes measurement and whose creat...
August 2020 – As both the healthcare delivery system and governmental agencies are formulating response and mitigation plans for the coronavirus pandemic, the importance of timely and reliable health data has never been more urgent. As a national leader in APCD management and analytics, Onpoint i...
August 2020 – Onpoint provided lead analytic support in a recent study of informal provider networks operating in the California healthcare market for a report commissioned by the state’s health benefits exchange, Covered California. Onpoint’s analytics team worked with California’s Integrated He...
August 2020 – Onpoint is pleased to welcome Nathan Tefft, PhD, Associate Professor of Economics at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, to our Board of Directors. Dr. Tefft teaches courses in health economics, microeconomics, econometrics, and statistics at Bates, and his research reflects his polic...
August 2020 – With the need for accessible and actionable data becoming more important than ever, Onpoint recently released an update to our Business Intelligence (BI) reporting solution, which leverages the latest technologies and remains focused on our clients’ priorities, including ease of use...
August 2020 – Together with our partners at the Vermont Blueprint for Health, Onpoint has leveraged data from Vermont’s APCD to identify the population of pediatric patients with mental-health diagnoses and explore patterns in patients' healthcare utilization and cost. Specifically, the State of ...
May 2020 – Onpoint's analysts have been working with state governments and other clients to generate baseline data to support state and regional resource planning and modeling efforts in response to COVID-19. Our initial analyses have focused on determining the number and prevalence of patients w...
May 2020 – Onpoint is pleased to welcome Rachel Block to our Board of Directors. She brings a long career in health policy and program leadership, most recently as a program officer with the Milbank Memorial Fund where she focuses on a variety of state health policy issues. She has served previo...
May 2020 – Transforming how primary care is delivered and paid for is widely viewed as foundational to achieving the cost-reduction and quality-improvement objectives that are essential to a sustainable healthcare system. States and regions across the country are working to understand their curre...
May 2020 – Onpoint is partnering with NewWave Telecom and Technologies (NewWave), a Maryland-based digital services provider with a focus on healthcare, to support the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s provider-reporting solution for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) ...
February 2020 – Onpoint sat down with Jeffrey Rideout, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), based in Oakland, California, to discuss the organization’s work helping transform California’s healthcare market. Q: What role does IHA play in helping dr...
February 2020 – Onpoint is excited to have collaborated with Washington State’s Office of Financial Management (OFM) on the state’s first comprehensive analysis of annual primary care medical expenditures. The data source for this report, “Primary Care Expenditures,” was the Washington All-Payer ...