News
July 28, 2016
Washington State Selects APCD Vendors
Yesterday, the State of Washington Office of Financial Management (OFM) announced the Apparently Successful Bidder for the Washington All Payer Claims Database (WA-APCD). The Center for Health Systems Effectiveness (CHSE) at Oregon Health & Science University has been selected to serve as the lead organization and Onpoint Health Data as the data vendor. The full press release is available here. Read More July 27, 2016
HCCI Announces Medicare Data Access Opportunity to Users
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its final rule implementing Section 105 of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) to expand how qualified entities (QE) can use and disclose data. The Final Rule (CMS-5061-F) explains how QEs can provide or sell combined data, or provide Medicare data at no cost, to certain authorized users. Read More July 27, 2016
AHRQ Healthcare Measurement and APCDs Webinar Slides and Recording Now Available
Slides and a webinar recording from the July 20th Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) webinar, Healthcare Measurement and APCDs: Creating an APCD Measure Inventory and Lessons for the Future of APCD Measure Development, are now available at https://www.apcdcouncil.org/webinars Read More July 14, 2016
AHRQ Healthcare Measurement and APCDs Webinar Invitation
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is pleased to announce the next webinar in its webinar series, Improving Cost Transparency and Quality of Care: All Payer Claims Databases (APCDs) Working for You. Read More July 6, 2016
Oregon Health Authority Releases Report Comparing Procedure Costs at Oregon Hospitals
Read More July 5, 2016
Association of Public Data Users Call for Visualizations
The Association of Public Data Users (APDU) will hold its annual meeting on September 14, 2016 in Alexandria, VA. As part of the conference this year, the APDU has announced an inaugural Data Viz Awards with an open call for visualizations using publicly-available data to convey a compelling point (e.g. an opportunity to highlight how claims data are being used!). Visuals may have appeared in a published research paper or article, in a public presentation, as a stand-alone infographic, as a website feature, and/or as another official product. Read More June 30, 2016