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...
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...