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...
September 2018 -- Onpoint’s Director of Data Operations and Analytics, Joanna Duncan, PhD, CPC, was recently named a "Health Leader" and selected by the Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership to participate in its Health Leadership Development program. The Hanley Center is a nonprofit organiz...
September 2018 -- The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has released its second report in a series of studies on price variation in the state. The publication, which focuses on different aspects of hospital price variation in Minnesota, finds that disparity in prices within individual hospital...
September 2018 -- Senior Health Data Analyst, Katherine Lydon, MPH, has been with Onpoint for nearly five years. During her time as an analyst on the team, she has worked on many client-facing and internal projects, demonstrating her diverse and expansive knowledge of health data systems, process...
September 2018 -- The Brown University School of Public Health was recently awarded a $550,000 grant from the Peterson Center on Healthcare to identify spending patterns and measure healthcare performance by studying data from Rhode Island’s all-payer claims database (RI APCD, or HealthFacts RI)....
September 2018 -- Onpoint is excited to participate again in the annual conference of the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO), where we will be taking part in conversations regarding the evolving information needs of health data stakeholders and the technical advances requir...