Academy Health, based in Washington, DC, is a leading national organization that brings together key stakeholders from the health services and policy research disciplines to address the current and future needs of the nation's evolving healthcare system. One of their fundamental and guiding objec...
According to a recent press release from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Minnesota has become the first state in the Midwest – and only the sixth in the entire nation – to publish summary-level health insurance claims files using data compiled from their all-payer claims database (MN AP...
In a 6-2 decision released earlier this March, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled against the state of Vermont in the case Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual, putting at risk the breadth of all-payer claims databases (APCDs) and the expansive advantages they yield. SCOTUS's decision effectively denies...
Across the country, a growing number of states are looking for ways to counter the escalating health crisis of opioid abuse and addiction. With the problem intensifying in Northern New England, health researchers and policymakers in the region are scrambling to find a proven approach to fight the...
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...
The Ohio-Kentucky Comprehensive Primary Care (OH-KY CPC) initiative has been working hard – and making great progress – in expanding transparency and accountability across the Greater Cincinnati region by building a regional culture of team-based care coordination and payment transformation. The...
Over the past decade, an increasing number of states have been launching initiatives aimed at transforming their healthcare delivery and payment systems. Critical to their success is access to a rich, multi-source database, like an all-payer claims database (APCD), that offers comprehensive infor...
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...