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2017 CO APCD Annual Report
Charting the Health Care System in Colorado
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The 2017 CO APCD Annual Report highlights how CO APCD data is being used to chart a path toward better health, health care and lower costs for Colorado.The Report details the current state of the CO APCD, and how the data available is more timely and actionable than ever before. Additionally, it contains crucial statewide insights on health care cost, utilization, quality, and chronic conditions across the state, and showcases how Change Agents are using custom data to support making innovative advancements to our health care system to lower costs and improve health.
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Myth Busters!
CIVHC and the CO APCD
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CIVHC’s Account Executives, Eddy Costa and Vince Tornillo, build key relationships with Change Agents across the state and nation who are advancing the Triple Aim. They work each day to get CO APCD data into the hands of individuals and organizations to enable them make decisions that will improve health, provide better care and reduce costs, health care system. A large part of their job is educating stakeholders about CIVHC and the CO APCD and dispelling misconceptions about the database and CIVHC’s potential role in partnering with them to help support their work.
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Meet our new VP of Business Development, Pete Sheehan
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Please help CIVHC welcome Pete Sheehan as our Vice President of Business Development. Pete joins us with twenty years of progressive management experience with a focus on business development, strategic partnerships, product innovation, government and community relations, and health policy analysis. Most recently, Pete served as the Western States Government Relations Manager for the national non-profit, Nurse-Family Partnership. Prior to that, he served as CEO of MyLifeLine.org, Regional Officer for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Effective Health Care Program, and Vice President of Government Affairs & Strategic Partnerships for Healthgrades. With Healthgrades, Pete focused on acquisition and licensing data and worked directly with more than 150 hospitals in 40 states on quality improvement and business development projects.
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Guest Perspective
CIVHC Shows the Power of Data and Partnerships
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Mary Jo Condon, MPPA, Senior Consultant, Freedman HealthCare, LLC
Wide dissemination of large custom data sets requires a series of complex gears – data integrity, a supportive regulatory pathway and interested stakeholders – all working together to turn a heavy wheel. However, it’s likely that only through a wide network of many, each analyzing APCD data through their own lens, will insights ever emerge at the repetition and speed necessary to drive change.
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Plaintalk Blog
The Essentials of Palliative Care
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Think for a moment about times when you have not been well and what brings you comfort. Often it is the presence of family, friends and caregivers who appreciate the necessity of focusing on us in ways that enable our return to wellbeing. The goal of Palliative Care is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
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Featured CO APCD Change Agent
Understanding the Impact of Hospital and Payer Negotiations
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The main objective of the project proposed by UTHealth was to better understand how hospitals are paid by commercial health plans, the different types of billing contracts negotiated, their prevalence, and how the terms of these contracts vary between markets. The research in this area was conducted with the goal of providing economic insight into decision and policy making that ultimately effect consumer welfare.
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Featured Community Change Agent
The Commonwealth Fund
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Since 2006, The Commonwealth Fund has produced 12 health system scorecards examining performance at the national, state, and local level. They have also conducted case studies examining more than 100 promising practices for improving health care. The Commonwealth Fund uses publicly available data from federal agencies to generate the score cards and findings are widely reported by the news media and serve as a catalyst to build awareness of gaps in performance and readiness for change.
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CIVHC Profile: Where Are They Now?
Analytic Projects
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Last year we introduced you to the wicked smart
Data & Analytics
team and highlighted some of the coolest projects in the hopper. In our latest CIVHC Profile Blog, we’re checking in on the status of those projects.
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Next Chat:
Dispatch Health
When:
Tuesday, April 10th, 12-12:30 pm MT
DispatchHealth
works as an extension of primary, specialty, and home care by delivering simple to complex medical treatment in the convenience of the home. Using different mediums including a free mobile app, website, and telephone, patients, clinicians, and care givers can request on-demand care.
What kind of outcomes and savings are DispatchHealth seeing? What were the challenges in setting up a new model for health care delivery?
Join our 30 minute
#ChangeAgentChat
on Tuesday, April 10th, 12-12:30pm MT, hosted by CIVHC’s Chief Medical Officer, Tamaan Osbourne-Roberts, MD.
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