Based on the outcome of the upcoming 2016 elections, the fate of the nation’s healthcare system may face yet another potential shift in key provisions and priorities. As we head toward November, public and private agencies committed to improving healthcare accessibility, affordability, and transp...
Addiction to opioid substances such as heroin, morphine, and prescription pain medication continues to grow as a national public health crisis, demonstrating widespread economic, personal, political, and social consequences. In 2013, 1.9 million Americans were dependent on pain medication and 517...
To help the country transform its care delivery and payment methods to focus on value instead of volume, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN). The LAN's mission is simple: accelerating the adoption of value-based...
This past Father's Day weekend, the Onpoint Revolution (REVO) cycling team was back at it again for our second consecutive outing at the Trek Across Maine. The Trek, an annual three-day, 180-mile cycling journey across the state of Maine – from the mountains at Bethel to the sea at Belfast – is t...
Health transformation initiatives across the country are working hard to reverse many of the key drivers of healthcare spending by identifying areas of overuse and inefficiency. One key step in this effort is calculating a patient’s total cost of care and resource use, illuminating possible was...
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice recently completed a follow-on study to its 2013 Dartmouth Atlas of Children’s Health Care in Northern New England. The new report focuses on children with medical complexity (CMC) — those with medical fragility and intensive car...
Onpoint is excited to announce that Elizabeth H. Johnson, MD, MS, the CEO of the MMC Physician-Hospital Organization (MMC PHO), has agreed to serve as Chair of our Board of Directors. Dr. Johnson, who has more than 15 years involvement in healthcare leadership and more than 18 years practicing ...
An important new study published in the national journal Population Health Management evaluates the Vermont Blueprint for Health’s overall progress in guiding sustainable statewide healthcare delivery reform. The Blueprint, a program recognized for its advances in primary care and systemic healt...
Addressing the three dimensions of the Triple Aim – (1) improving the patient’s experience of care, (2) improving the health of populations, and (3) reducing the per-capita cost of healthcare – is a challenge familiar to health reform initiatives across the country. With healthcare spending in th...
Onpoint is excited to announce that we have officially achieved security compliance from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through its rigorous Qualified Entity Certification Program (QECP) to support our APCD clients. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 allows standardiz...
Addressing the three dimensions of the Triple Aim – (1) improving the patient’s experience of care, (2) improving the health of populations, and (3) reducing the per-capita cost of healthcare – is a challenge familiar to health reform initiatives across the country. With healthcare spending in th...
As the nation’s healthcare community – providers, health plans, and others – continues to await October’s ICD-10 start date, Onpoint is here to help submitters as they prepare to report ICD-10’s more-detailed code sets for our clients’ data collection programs. Since collection specifications var...
Earlier this summer, the Milbank Memorial Fund – a New York-based foundation working to improve population health by connecting leaders and decision makers with the best available evidence and experience – did just that. In June, it brought together leaders from the government’s Center for Medica...
This October, Onpoint will be hitting the road to join the annual conference of the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO), where we will be taking part in the conversation around the evolving information needs of data consumers and the technical improvements and solutions requ...
This June, Onpoint’s cycling team – Onpoint Revolution – celebrated the Father’s Day Weekend by joining in the 2015 Trek Across Maine. The Trek, a three-day, 180-mile cycling event that traverses the state of Maine – from the western mountains of Sunday River to the Belfast coast – is the largest...