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...
As healthcare costs continue to rise, health reform initiatives across the country are working diligently to achieve the Triple Aim – (1) improve the patient’s experience of care, (2) improve the health of populations, and (3) reduce the per-capita cost of healthcare. One promising approach: prov...
As healthcare costs continue to rise, health reform initiatives across the country are working diligently to achieve the Triple Aim – (1) improve the patient’s experience of care, (2) improve the health of populations, and (3) reduce the per-capita cost of healthcare. One promising approach: prov...
The APCD Council, with support from the Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center, has created model legislation guidance for states interested in developing all-payer claims database (APCD) programs. The document, which is based on a review of existing APCD legislation in 15 states, offers templat...
Interested in getting a cross-state look at how government leaders are tackling the challenge of rising healthcare costs and outdated modes of delivery? A new report from theMilbank Memorial Fund — “State Models for Health Care Cost Measurement: A Policy and Operational Framework” — offers a view...
Lisa Dulsky Watkins, MD, Onpoint’s clinical advisor and director of the Multi-State Collaborative at the Milbank Memorial Fund, Jenney Samuelson, MS, assistant director of the Vermont Blueprint for Health, and members of Onpoint’s analytics team recently joined forces to host a breakout session o...
A recently released report has taken notice of an emerging strength in Onpoint’s home state of Maine: an expanding market niche in health informatics — “the use of data to inform and improve healthcare quality, cost, and risk decisions.” The report, titled “The Health Informatics Assessment Proje...
Onpoint team members will join Lisa Dulsky Watkins, MD, of the Milbank Memorial Fund and Jenney Samuelson, MS, of the Vermont Blueprint for Health to host a breakout session on "Primary Care Transformation: Lessons from Across the Nation" at this year's Maine Quality Counts Conferenceon April 1. ...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced first-year findings from two of its Innovation Center’s programs: the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative and the Multi-payer Primary Care Practice (MAPCP) demonstration. These projects are part of CMS’s broade...
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), directed by the state’s All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) Workgroup, recently published a report to the Minnesota Legislature containing a summary of recommendations to develop a framework for the expanded uses of the Minnesota all-payer claims database (M...
The APCD Council, with support from the Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center, has developed a manual for states interested in developing all-payer claims databases (APCDs). The manual, which provides an overview of APCD implementations across the country, offers a valuable resource for other s...
Last November, the Supreme Court agreed to take up a case with potentially far-reaching ramifications for the future of the nation’s widely watched health insurance exchanges (HIXs). While the issue at hand — whether the promised tax credits for policies purchased by individuals through the HIXs ...