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...
June 2018 -- Onpoint’s cycling team – Onpoint REVOlution – celebrated Father’s Day weekend this June by participating in the 2018 Trek Across Maine for their fourth-consecutive ride. The Trek, a three-day, 180-mile cycling event that traverses the state of Maine is the largest fundraiser of its k...
June 2018 -- Onpoint’s Client Services and Data Analytics teams continue to grow in an effort to support the needs of an expanding and increasingly diverse base of clients. Three members from our growing team are highlighted below. Pictured, left to right: Monique Cote, Loretta Edes, Gina Robert...
June 2018 -- Onpoint is pleased to partner with HealthShare Exchange (HSX) as their data aggregation and reporting contractor for the Greater Philadelphia region’s Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) initiative. HealthShare Exchange, established in 2012, is the health information exchange (HIE...
June 2018 -- Onpoint is partnering with the Center for Health Systems Effectiveness (CHSE) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and Forum One on behalf of Washington State's Office of Financial Management in the development of an innovative new consumer website, Washington HealthCareC...
June 2018 -- Onpoint is delighted to announce that it has been selected by California’s Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) as their data and analytics partner in support of several innovative statewide health improvement initiatives, including their Value-Based Pay for Performance (VBP4P) an...
September 2017 -- Onpoint is excited to announce the release of our new Performance Reporting Portal (PRP), an innovative measurement and reporting tool that delivers personalized views into the health and performance of health plans’, facilities’, and provider organizations’ respective practitio...
September 2017 -- Onpoint is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the State of Massachusetts’ Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) as the organization’s new consultant and data management contractor for the creation of a statistically de-identified data set, employing an ...