In May 2014, the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) announced a new national health care cost and quality transparency initiative. The initiative is supported by Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare; other payers will be announced shortly. The presentation will provide background information on HCCI and describe the initial release of the three tier public transparency website that HCCI is developing. Tier 1, the public website, will be launched by 12/31/15 and was the focus of the discussion.
Big data is more than just a buzzword in healthcare. It's the promise of being able to extract, cull, and interpret medical data to directly benefit population and individual health. learn more about the benefits of big data, roadblocks to leveraging it's potential, how Meaningful Use enablesbig data, what types of cross-country collaboration projects are advancing the use of big data on an international scale, big data's impact on patient privacy and much more! Special thanks to Mandi Bishop for her time on the podcast.
An Industry Collaboration's Perspectives on the Value of Patient Support Prog...TransCelerate
The Value of Safety Information Data Sources Initiative will seek to identify sources of safety information for a single high value valid cases and develop a proposed method for aggregate reporting of lower value cases.
mHealth Israel_President Trump and the Future of US Healthcare Regulation and...Levi Shapiro
Presentation for mHealth Israel by Harry Nelson, Managing Partner of Nelson Hardiman LLP: President Trump and the Future of US Healthcare Regulation and Reimbursement. Includes an understanding of the current Obamacare framework, anticipated signature Trump healthcare initiatives and implications for healthcare and life science providers
Network physicians, hospitals, and other care continuum providers work collaboratively in active clinical process improvement programs across service lines and specialties to define, establish, implement, monitor, evaluate and periodically update the processes of:
- Evidence-based medicine
- Beneficiary engagement
- Care coordination
- Conservation of healthcare resources
- Clinical data reporting
Our exclusive study reveals 20 key findings that will help health plans set the course for their digital member experience strategies in 2016 and beyond.
Part of the "2016 Annual Conference: Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics" held at Harvard Law School on May 6, 2016.
This conference aimed to: (1) identify the various ways in which law and ethics intersect with the use of big data in health care and health research, particularly in the United States; (2) understand the way U.S. law (and potentially other legal systems) currently promotes or stands as an obstacle to these potential uses; (3) determine what might be learned from the legal and ethical treatment of uses of big data in other sectors and countries; and (4) examine potential solutions (industry best practices, common law, legislative, executive, domestic and international) for better use of big data in health care and health research in the U.S.
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School 2016 annual conference was organized in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Health Ethics and Policy Lab, University of Zurich.
Learn more at http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/2016-annual-conference.
Big data is more than just a buzzword in healthcare. It's the promise of being able to extract, cull, and interpret medical data to directly benefit population and individual health. learn more about the benefits of big data, roadblocks to leveraging it's potential, how Meaningful Use enablesbig data, what types of cross-country collaboration projects are advancing the use of big data on an international scale, big data's impact on patient privacy and much more! Special thanks to Mandi Bishop for her time on the podcast.
An Industry Collaboration's Perspectives on the Value of Patient Support Prog...TransCelerate
The Value of Safety Information Data Sources Initiative will seek to identify sources of safety information for a single high value valid cases and develop a proposed method for aggregate reporting of lower value cases.
mHealth Israel_President Trump and the Future of US Healthcare Regulation and...Levi Shapiro
Presentation for mHealth Israel by Harry Nelson, Managing Partner of Nelson Hardiman LLP: President Trump and the Future of US Healthcare Regulation and Reimbursement. Includes an understanding of the current Obamacare framework, anticipated signature Trump healthcare initiatives and implications for healthcare and life science providers
Network physicians, hospitals, and other care continuum providers work collaboratively in active clinical process improvement programs across service lines and specialties to define, establish, implement, monitor, evaluate and periodically update the processes of:
- Evidence-based medicine
- Beneficiary engagement
- Care coordination
- Conservation of healthcare resources
- Clinical data reporting
Our exclusive study reveals 20 key findings that will help health plans set the course for their digital member experience strategies in 2016 and beyond.
Part of the "2016 Annual Conference: Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics" held at Harvard Law School on May 6, 2016.
This conference aimed to: (1) identify the various ways in which law and ethics intersect with the use of big data in health care and health research, particularly in the United States; (2) understand the way U.S. law (and potentially other legal systems) currently promotes or stands as an obstacle to these potential uses; (3) determine what might be learned from the legal and ethical treatment of uses of big data in other sectors and countries; and (4) examine potential solutions (industry best practices, common law, legislative, executive, domestic and international) for better use of big data in health care and health research in the U.S.
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School 2016 annual conference was organized in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Health Ethics and Policy Lab, University of Zurich.
Learn more at http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/2016-annual-conference.
The Fight Against COVID-19: A National Patient RegistryHealth Catalyst
Comprehensive COVID-19 understanding is a critical asset for adapting to pandemic needs, directing resources, developing vaccines, and planning for surges in a timely, informed manner. Because common barriers have impeded the progress of comprehensive data repositories, researchers have relied on surveillance data from population-level viral testing, which has proven insufficient. To significantly advance COVID-19 understanding, the medical community needs a digital patient registry that captures national-level data on how the virus impacts individuals differently according to comorbidities, lifestyle factors, and more. These essential insights lie in real-world evidence, which a registry can only deliver when it applies value sets to leverage clinical and claims data from health systems across the United States.
This webinar continues the COVID-19 Insights webinar series. Topics include the loans and grants being offered by the government, how they differ, and how they may benefit your practice, including SBA Loans and Grants, HHS Grants, Medicare Advance/Accelerated Payments, and Telehealth Funding. The webinar also goes over the CareOptimize technology developed to assist with streamlining COVID-19 monitoring and reporting.
Rethinking Health Plan Business Models for the Emerging On-Demand Digital Eco...Cognizant
Even as on-demand healthcare platforms disrupt the industry, they create possibilities for new value propositions, partnerships and business models that will further reshape the cost and delivery of care.
Healthcare Rx: The Rise of the Empowered ConsumerCognizant
Market and digital forces have combined to enable the healthcare industry to treat much of what ails it — or be supplanted by newcomers who can more quickly seize the digital high ground.
How a U.S. COVID-19 Data Registry Fuels Global ResearchHealth Catalyst
In addition to driving COVID-19 understanding within the United States, a national disease registry is informing research beyond U.S. borders. Clinicians with the Singapore Ministry of Healthcare Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) have used Health Catalyst Touchstone® COVID-19 data to develop a machine learning tool that helps predict the likelihood of COVID-19 mortality. With this national data set that leverages deep aggregated EHR data, the MOHT accessed the research-grade data it needed to build a machine-learning algorithm that predicts risk of death from COVID-19. The registry-informed prediction model was accurate enough to stand up to comparisons in the published literature and promises to help inform vaccine research and, ultimately, allocation of vaccines within populations.
Value-Based Care and Healthcare Consumerism: Opportunities for Health IT and ...Cognizant
Health IT and technology solutions are central in the shift to value-based care and to meeting the demands of patient consumerism. Hurdles remain, but all primary players in the healthcare ecosystem, patients, providers and payers, are seeking more and better data, platform interoperability, real-time and actionable analytical insights, and more effective engagement.
Importance of the strategic & operation plans under the state cooperative agr...Maurice Dawson
Health Information Technology (IT) has become an important topic within the health community in the last several years. Technology has become intertwined in all facets of our lives from smart phones to simple robotics but the health care industry has not fully incorporated all these new technologies in every day practices. However the health care industry is actively working toward a systems concept that allows interoperability as the ones currently in fielded act as independent closed systems. The health care community aims to integrate tools such as tablets, laptops, and Open Source Software (OSS) applications that allow for paperless records to include increasing accuracy in the hospital room with the capture of patient data. Many states must update their status in relation to the Strategic and Operation Plan under the State Cooperative Agreement. Key items of importance are the following; governance, policy/legal, technical infrastructure, business and technical operations, communications/marketing, and relationships to Medicaid/Medicare. Moving forward it is essential to compare and contrast different states to provide a larger view of the status of being compliant with the Strategic and Operation Plan under the State Cooperative Agreement.
Using Data to Ensure a Safe Return to School During COVID-19Health Catalyst
With limited information about the novel coronavirus, industries are scrambling to create an effective response to more quickly and safely return to life before the pandemic. Data has proven to be the best way to capture information about the developing virus. With access to the latest, comprehensive COVID-19 data, decision makers in any industry—from education to healthcare—can develop a sustainable, viable approach to pandemic-era operations.
In the education sector, leaders can use accurate, up-to-date COVID-19 data to make decisions about implementing in-person or virtual learning. When states across the country instituted virtual learning as a stopgap until it was safe to resume in-person education, the most vulnerable students experienced the greatest disadvantages. As these disparities grow with continued virtual learning, it is an imperative that leaders have access to the latest coronavirus data to rapidly return to face-to-face learning.
Five Action Items to Improve HCC Coding Accuracy and Risk Adjustment With Ana...Health Catalyst
A hot topic in healthcare right now, especially in the medical coding world is the Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) risk adjustment model and how accurate coding affects healthcare organizations’ reimbursement.
With almost one third of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, it’s more important than ever for healthcare organizations to pay attention to this model and make sure physicians are coding diagnoses appropriately to ensure fair compensation. This article walks through basics of the risk adjustment model, why coding accuracy is so important, and five action items for interdisciplinary work groups to take. They include:
Having an accurate problem list.
Ensuring patients are seen in each calendar year.
Improving decision support and EMR optimization.
Widespread education and communication.
Tracking performance and identifying opportunities.
The Fight Against COVID-19: A National Patient RegistryHealth Catalyst
Comprehensive COVID-19 understanding is a critical asset for adapting to pandemic needs, directing resources, developing vaccines, and planning for surges in a timely, informed manner. Because common barriers have impeded the progress of comprehensive data repositories, researchers have relied on surveillance data from population-level viral testing, which has proven insufficient. To significantly advance COVID-19 understanding, the medical community needs a digital patient registry that captures national-level data on how the virus impacts individuals differently according to comorbidities, lifestyle factors, and more. These essential insights lie in real-world evidence, which a registry can only deliver when it applies value sets to leverage clinical and claims data from health systems across the United States.
This webinar continues the COVID-19 Insights webinar series. Topics include the loans and grants being offered by the government, how they differ, and how they may benefit your practice, including SBA Loans and Grants, HHS Grants, Medicare Advance/Accelerated Payments, and Telehealth Funding. The webinar also goes over the CareOptimize technology developed to assist with streamlining COVID-19 monitoring and reporting.
Rethinking Health Plan Business Models for the Emerging On-Demand Digital Eco...Cognizant
Even as on-demand healthcare platforms disrupt the industry, they create possibilities for new value propositions, partnerships and business models that will further reshape the cost and delivery of care.
Healthcare Rx: The Rise of the Empowered ConsumerCognizant
Market and digital forces have combined to enable the healthcare industry to treat much of what ails it — or be supplanted by newcomers who can more quickly seize the digital high ground.
How a U.S. COVID-19 Data Registry Fuels Global ResearchHealth Catalyst
In addition to driving COVID-19 understanding within the United States, a national disease registry is informing research beyond U.S. borders. Clinicians with the Singapore Ministry of Healthcare Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) have used Health Catalyst Touchstone® COVID-19 data to develop a machine learning tool that helps predict the likelihood of COVID-19 mortality. With this national data set that leverages deep aggregated EHR data, the MOHT accessed the research-grade data it needed to build a machine-learning algorithm that predicts risk of death from COVID-19. The registry-informed prediction model was accurate enough to stand up to comparisons in the published literature and promises to help inform vaccine research and, ultimately, allocation of vaccines within populations.
Value-Based Care and Healthcare Consumerism: Opportunities for Health IT and ...Cognizant
Health IT and technology solutions are central in the shift to value-based care and to meeting the demands of patient consumerism. Hurdles remain, but all primary players in the healthcare ecosystem, patients, providers and payers, are seeking more and better data, platform interoperability, real-time and actionable analytical insights, and more effective engagement.
Importance of the strategic & operation plans under the state cooperative agr...Maurice Dawson
Health Information Technology (IT) has become an important topic within the health community in the last several years. Technology has become intertwined in all facets of our lives from smart phones to simple robotics but the health care industry has not fully incorporated all these new technologies in every day practices. However the health care industry is actively working toward a systems concept that allows interoperability as the ones currently in fielded act as independent closed systems. The health care community aims to integrate tools such as tablets, laptops, and Open Source Software (OSS) applications that allow for paperless records to include increasing accuracy in the hospital room with the capture of patient data. Many states must update their status in relation to the Strategic and Operation Plan under the State Cooperative Agreement. Key items of importance are the following; governance, policy/legal, technical infrastructure, business and technical operations, communications/marketing, and relationships to Medicaid/Medicare. Moving forward it is essential to compare and contrast different states to provide a larger view of the status of being compliant with the Strategic and Operation Plan under the State Cooperative Agreement.
Using Data to Ensure a Safe Return to School During COVID-19Health Catalyst
With limited information about the novel coronavirus, industries are scrambling to create an effective response to more quickly and safely return to life before the pandemic. Data has proven to be the best way to capture information about the developing virus. With access to the latest, comprehensive COVID-19 data, decision makers in any industry—from education to healthcare—can develop a sustainable, viable approach to pandemic-era operations.
In the education sector, leaders can use accurate, up-to-date COVID-19 data to make decisions about implementing in-person or virtual learning. When states across the country instituted virtual learning as a stopgap until it was safe to resume in-person education, the most vulnerable students experienced the greatest disadvantages. As these disparities grow with continued virtual learning, it is an imperative that leaders have access to the latest coronavirus data to rapidly return to face-to-face learning.
Five Action Items to Improve HCC Coding Accuracy and Risk Adjustment With Ana...Health Catalyst
A hot topic in healthcare right now, especially in the medical coding world is the Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) risk adjustment model and how accurate coding affects healthcare organizations’ reimbursement.
With almost one third of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, it’s more important than ever for healthcare organizations to pay attention to this model and make sure physicians are coding diagnoses appropriately to ensure fair compensation. This article walks through basics of the risk adjustment model, why coding accuracy is so important, and five action items for interdisciplinary work groups to take. They include:
Having an accurate problem list.
Ensuring patients are seen in each calendar year.
Improving decision support and EMR optimization.
Widespread education and communication.
Tracking performance and identifying opportunities.
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Efficient and thorough data collection and its timely analysis are critical for disaster response and recovery in order to save peoples lives during disasters. However, access to comprehensive data in disaster areas and their quick analysis to transform the data to actionable knowledge are challenging. With the popularity and pervasiveness of mobile devices, crowdsourcing data collection and analysis has emerged as an effective and scalable solution. This paper addresses the problem of crowdsourcing mobile videos for disasters by identifying two unique challenges of 1) prioritizing visualdata collection and transmission under bandwidth scarcity caused by damaged communication networks and 2) analyzing the acquired data in a timely manner. We introduce a new crowdsourcing framework for acquiring and analyzing the mobile videos utilizing fine granularity spatial metadata of videos for a rapidly changing disaster situation. We also develop an analytical model to quantify the visual awareness of a video based on its metadata and propose the visual awareness maximization problem for acquiring the most relevant data under bandwidth constraints. The collected videos are evenly distributed to off-site analysts to collectively minimize crowdsourcing efforts for analysis. Our simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed framework.
The HHS Health Data Initiative (HDI) Strategy & Execution Plan with Damon DavisHealth Data Consortium
Watch the webinar here: http://www.screencast.com/t/a43QB5zqjP5
Damon Davis, Director of the Health Data Initiative at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, discussed HHS' new Health Data Strategy and Execution Plan. Since the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched its efforts to make the vast array of data resources it curates openly available for public consumption in 2010, the data available in HealthData.gov catalog has grown exponentially. HHS’s efforts to release data for the purpose of sparking innovations in healthcare and the delivery of human services is known as the Health Data Initiative (HDI). The mission of HDI is to help improve health, healthcare, and the delivery of human services by harnessing the power of data and fostering a culture of innovative uses of data in public and private sector institutions, communities, research groups, and policy making arenas.
Discover more health data resources on our website at http://www.healthdataconsortium.org/
With the popularity of mobile devices, spatial crowdsourcing is rising as a new framework that enables human workers to solve tasks in the physical world. With spatial crowdsourcing, the goal is to crowdsource a set of spatiotemporal tasks (i.e., tasks related to time and location) to a set of workers, which requires the workers to physically travel to those locations in order to perform the tasks. In this article, we focus on one class of spatial crowdsourcing, in which the workers send their locations to the server and thereafter the server assigns to every worker tasks in proximity to the worker’s location with the aim of maximizing the overall number of assigned tasks. We formally define this maximum task assignment (MTA) problem in spatial crowdsourcing, and identify its challenges. We propose alternative solutions to address these challenges by exploiting the spatial properties of the problem space, including the spatial distribution and the travel cost of the workers. MTA is based on the assumptions that all tasks are of the same type and all workers are equally qualified in performing the tasks. Meanwhile, different types of tasks may require workers with various skill sets or expertise. Subsequently, we extend MTA by taking the expertise of the workers into consideration. We refer to this problem as the maximum score assignment (MSA) problem and show its practicality and generality. Extensive experiments with various synthetic and two real-world datasets show the applicability of our proposed framework.
Links:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2729713
http://infolab.usc.edu/DocsDemos/to_TSAS15.pdf
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2729713
Clinical Trial Data Transparency: Explaining Governance for Public Data SharingHealth Data Consortium
Watch the webinar here: http://www.screencast.com/t/0lATKYlJ8
Dr. Chris Boone, then-VP in Avalere’s Evidence Translation and Implementation Practice, discussed clinical trial data transparency and considerations for governance and open data sharing. Clinical trials are extremely valuable as the primary data source for seeking regulatory approval of products. Historically, regulatory agencie have been the sole recipients of clinical trial data, butthere has been a recent push from various stakeholder groups to open access to clinical trial data to non-regulatory researchers as an act of ethical responsibility to patients, a contribution to public health, and a demonstrated commitment to advancing the science. Some of the barriers include developing a sound approach for de-identifying patient data, adopting universal clinical trial data format, and managing the proactive and non-selective access and security of clinical data once collected. Dr. Boone discusses rationales and benefits/risks of clinical trial transparency, responsible use of publicly sharing this data, barriers and legal implications, and reasonable data sharing models.
Discover more health data resources on our website at http://www.healthdataconsortium.org/
The 10th Annual Utah Health Services Research Conference: Data: What's available and how we are use it is changing. By: Danielle A. Lloyd, MPH - Premier
Health Services Research Conference: March 16, 2015
Patient Centered Research Methods Core, University of Utah, CCTS
Preparing for the Coming Change: An Overview of the Healthcare Analytics MarketHealth Catalyst
Jim Adams, Executive Director, The Advisory Board, discusses the two market forces in particular, population health management and the retail revolution, that are driving the need for new applications of analytics and business intelligence (BI).
Attendees will learn:
The role of analytics in population health and the growing retail market
The key challenges provider organizations are facing in developing analytics capabilities
The pros and cons of the core strategies providers are utilizing to develop analytics capabilities and the vendors that map to those strategies
Bring your most pressing healthcare problems and spend an hour listening to one of the most seasoned industry analysts talking through the top forces shifting the landscape of the healthcare market in 2015.
We hope you'll come away with some insight and refined thinking about solutions that will drive your work forward. Please do join us.
apidays LIVE New York - Using APIs to Transform the way CMS Shares Medicare C...apidays
apidays LIVE New York - API for Legacy Industries: Banking, Insurance, Healthcare and Retail
Using APIs to Transform the way CMS Shares Medicare Claims Data
Sarah Tully, API Product Manager at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
marketing Strategy on Android App-Health plusBiswajeet Sahu
This was prepared during 4 weeks Marketing Internship under Prof.Sameer Mathur.
It contains an Android app with detailed Marketing Strategy and future plans after launching the app.
Continuity of Care Documents: Today’s Top Solution for Healthcare Interoperab...Health Catalyst
While healthcare waits for the expanded data interoperability that FHIR promises, the industry needs an immediate solution for accessing and using disparate data from across the continuum of care. With FHIR potentially several years away, continuity of care documents (CCDs) are the best option for acquiring the ambulatory clinical care data health systems need to close quality gaps today. Because organizations that rely only on claims data to drive quality improvement risk missing out on more that 80 percent of patient information, CCDs are the current must-have answer to interoperability for successful quality improvement.
Healthcare providers are transitioning to more powerful population health man...Persivia Inc
Healthcare organizations are implementing Population Health Management Platforms with integrated healthcare company's claims, electronic health records, laboratory, social determinants of health (SDoH), and other relevant information. To perform successfully and offer value-based care with superior healthcare outcomes, such platforms also develop cost and system performance criteria based on Medicare and Medicaid data points.
2016 IBM Interconnect - medical devices transformationElizabeth Koumpan
Emerging technologies such as Internet of Things, 3D Printing are driving the creation of new business models and forcing the Industry for transformation. The product centric model where the Industry main objective was to develop the device, is moving to software and services model, with the focus on Big Data & Analytics, Integration and Cloud.
The maturation of technologies such as social, mobile, analytics, cloud, 3D printing, bio- and nanotechnology are rapidly shifting the competitive landscape. These emerging technologies create an environment that is connected and open, simple and intelligent, fast and scalable. Organizations must embrace disruptive technologies to drive innovation
Similar to The Health Care Cost Institute’sNational Transparency Initiative (20)
From Research to Practice - New Models for Data-sharing and Collaboration to ...Health Data Consortium
Watch the webinar here: http://encore.meetingbridge.com/MB005418/140528/
Webinar transcript: http://hdc.membershipsoftware.org/Files/webinars/HDC-PwC%20NIH%20&%20PCORI%20Webinar%20Transcript%205_28_14.pdf
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Executive Director Joe Selby, MD, MPH; National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director and PCORI Board of Governors member Francis Collins, MD, PhD; and NIH Associate Director for Data Science Philip Bourne, PhD discussed new and emerging trends in big data for health, including:
- How researchers, patients, clinicians, and others are forging new models for data-sharing.
- Leveraging the quantity, variety, and analytic potential of health-related data for research and practice.
- Addressing patients’ perspectives, needs, and concerns in creating new opportunities for innovation and translational science.
- Exciting initiatives such as PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network initiative that PCORI is now helping to develop, and related open data and technology efforts such - as the NIH Health Systems Collaboratory and Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative.
Discover more health data resources on our website at http://www.healthdataconsortium.org/
Addressing Privacy and Security Concerns to Unlock Insights in Big Data in He...Health Data Consortium
Watch the webinar here: http://www.screencast.com/t/6E1ZgTOb
Deven McGraw, Partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, discussed privacy and security concerns in regards to the liberation and usage of health data. There is enormous potential to glean valuable insights from large data sets of health (and health-related) information - but the collection and use of health information for analytics purposes raises privacy and security concerns. Solution of these issues is key to realizing the benefits of health big data. This presentation will focus primarily on some of the regulatory challenges to learning uses of clinical and administrative claims data but also touch on challenges to big data analytics in other contexts (for example, government data and data collected by consumer-facing commercial entities like mobile health apps, social networking sites, search engines, and other personal health tools).
Discover more health data resources on our website at http://www.healthdataconsortium.org/
You can watch this webinar at: http://www.screencast.com/t/QqEn0CyB
Dr. David Knott and Erica Hutchins Coe from McKinsey & Company examined both current market participants and new entrants including Medicaid health plans, co-ops, and provider sponsored health plans using a database of rate filings for 21,000 plans across 50 states and Washington, DC. View a recording of their presentation to understand where competitors are playing, who is selling what kinds of products and networks, and who is most competitively priced to win.
Discover more health data resources on our website at http://www.healthdataconsortium.org/
Liberating Health Data: What we learned in New York, with Dr. Nirav ShahHealth Data Consortium
You can watch this webinar at: http://www.screencast.com/t/CA4ROcdVdo
Dr. Nirav Shah from the New York State Health Department (NYS) discussed lessons learned in providing open access to state health data and why such innovation in health care is critical in this era of health reform for the Health Data Consortium's inaugural webinar. In March 2013, New York State launched health.data.ny.gov and became one of the first states in the country to liberate health data from its files. NYS’s health data website aims to support the Triple Aim: improve individual care, improve population health, and lower costs, and may also create business opportunities that allow developers to use this data to develop new apps that can benefit health.
This webinar also led into the HDC event, Putting Health Data to Work in Our States and Communities, which took place in Chicago on Friday, November 8. Take a look at out our blog to learn more about this thought-providing, invigorating day for health data.
Discover more health data resources on our website at http://www.healthdataconsortium.org/
Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013
Health Industry Bootcamp: A Real-World Crash Course in Everything You Didn’t Learn in Business School about Using Public Data to Create Market Value, Navigate Perverse Incentives, and Deliver Public and Social Good
Health Datapalooza 2013: HDC Affiliates Apps Demos - Involution Studios hGraphHealth Data Consortium
Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013
HEALTH DATA CONSORTIUM AFFILIATES APP DEMOS
Monday June 3, 2013 • 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Regency Ballroom
Moderator: Sunnie Southern, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viable Synergy, LLC; Ohio Health Data Affiliate
hGraph is an open source information visualization which provides a complete overview of an
individual’s health from an aggregated, high-level “how am I doing” status to detailed, metriclevel results and analysis. This single picture method can have a profound effect on a person’s
understanding of his/her total well-being, because it compiles multiple metrics and inputs into a
unified graph that can be viewed at a glance.
Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013
Linked Data – Structured Data on the Web
Moderator:
David Wood, Chief Technology Officer, 3 Round Stones
Speaker:
Bernadette Hyland, Chief Executive Officer, 3 Round Stones
Linked Data is a standards-driven model for representing structured data on the Web that gives developers, publishers, and information architects a consistent, predictable way to publish, merge and consume data. Find out what Linked Data is all about from Bernadette Hyland and David Wood from 3 Round Stones, who will present the Linked Data mode in plain, jargon-free language while provide an example of how Linked Data is being used by Sentara Healthcare to combine authoritative open government data with user entered information to providing personalized guidance for patients suffering from asthma, diabetes and heart disease.
Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013
Cooperation Without Coordination: Managed Distributed Clinical Trial Data
Moderator:
Bernadette Hyland, Chief Executive Officer, 3 Round Stones
Speaker:
David Wood, Chief Technology Officer, 3 Round Stones
Sivaram Arabandi, Clinical Informatician, Ontopro
Tom Plasterer, Principal Informatics Scientist, AstraZeneca
A challenge common among many healthcare organizations is to relate the detailed outcomes of external data, e.g., clinical trials, to their own research. Learn how Linked Data techniques were developed for the Web and allow for “cooperation without coordination”. This presentation will describe how 3 Round Stones and an international pharmaceutical company created a system to allow coordinated views of distributed clinical trial information. The system extended the Callimachus Project, an Open Source Linked Data management system.
Health Datapalooza 2013: Hearing from the Community - Richard MartinHealth Data Consortium
Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013
Hearing from the Community: Where We Are and Where We Would Like to Be
Moderator:
Edward J. Sondik, former Director, National Center for Health Statistics
Speakers:
Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association (APHA)
Samuel ‘Woodie’ Kessel, Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Health
Patrick Remington, Associate Dean for Public Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Jean Nudelman, Director, Community Benefits Programs, Kaiser Permanente
Donald F. Schwarz, Health Commissioner, Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity, City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Afshin Khosravii, Chief Executive Officer, Trilogy Integrated Resources
Richard Martin, Vice President, Heritage Provider Network
This session will focus on advances in the use of health data in developing or implementing new tools that impact local community health. It will explore the data and technology needs of local community health organizations and discuss the challenges they face when attempting to meet these needs. It will also present recommendations from non-data oriented people regarding opportunities in the data and technology fields that could enhance their experience in local community health.
Health Datapalooza 2013: Hearing from the Community - Jean NudelmanHealth Data Consortium
Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013
Hearing from the Community: Where We Are and Where We Would Like to Be
Moderator:
Edward J. Sondik, former Director, National Center for Health Statistics
Speakers:
Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association (APHA)
Samuel ‘Woodie’ Kessel, Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Health
Patrick Remington, Associate Dean for Public Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Jean Nudelman, Director, Community Benefits Programs, Kaiser Permanente
Donald F. Schwarz, Health Commissioner, Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity, City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Afshin Khosravii, Chief Executive Officer, Trilogy Integrated Resources
Richard Martin, Vice President, Heritage Provider Network
This session will focus on advances in the use of health data in developing or implementing new tools that impact local community health. It will explore the data and technology needs of local community health organizations and discuss the challenges they face when attempting to meet these needs. It will also present recommendations from non-data oriented people regarding opportunities in the data and technology fields that could enhance their experience in local community health.
Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013
Closing Session
Gather to share insights with Health Datapalooza organizers and to establish future pathways for progress in efforts to liberate health data. Health Code-a-palooza and Apps Finalists will also be announced.
Speakers:
Bob Kocher, Planning Committee Co-Chair, Health Datapalooza; Venture Partner, Venrock
Steven Krein, Planning Committee Co-Chair, Health Datapalooza; Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, StartUp Health
Dwayne Spradlin, Chief Executive Officer, Health Data Consortium
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The Health Care Cost Institute’sNational Transparency Initiative
1. HDC Webinar Series
The Health Care Cost Institute’s
National Transparency Initiative
Dr. David Newman, Health Care Cost Institute
Introduced by Dwayne Spradlin, CEO, Health Data Consortium
3. About HCCI
HCCI is a non-profit, independent, non-partisan research
institute dedicated to creating the United States’ most
comprehensive source of information on health care activity
and promoting research on the drivers of health care costs
and utilization.
– Public mission - improving US health system by creating
comprehensive data infrastructure and analytics
– Research - We currently hold claims, with allowed amounts, for
more than 50 million Americans, from 2007 onward which we
make available for academic, non-commercial research
5. Governing Board
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Stephanie J. Carlton, R.N., M.B.A. is currently an expert consultant at
McKinsey & Company
Almeta Cooper, J.D., Associate Vice President for Health Sciences and
Executive Director for HHS Advocacy, Regulatory and Quality
Improvement Programs at the Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State
University
Dr. Leemore Dafny, PhD., Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital
and Health Services, and a Professor of Management and Strategy,
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
David Dranove, Ph.D., Walter McNerney Professor of Health Industry
Management, Northwestern University
Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Stephen Parente, Ph.D., Chair, Professor of Health Finance and
Insurance, University of Minnesota
Theodore A. Prospect, F.S.A., M.A.A.A., Chief Actuary, UnitedHealth
Center for Health Reform and Modernization
Dale Yamamoto, F.S.A., M.A.A.A, F.C.A., Independent Actuary
6. Current HCCI Data
• As of April 2014, HCCI holds data on 50 million
people per year (2007-2013)
– Initial supporters: Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente and
UnitedHealthcare; new participants: Assurant Health
– Administrative Claims; employer-sponsored insurance,
individual insurance; Medicare Advantage (Part C)
– Data for every state and the District of Columbia
– Updated annually (2012 data available now); 2013 data
were processed in July and available in fall
– HIPAA-compliant, de-identified.
• Hold Vermont data for generally public reporting
purposes; other APCD data
7. Future HCCI Data
• By end of 2014
– Medicare (2009-onwards) through Qualified Entity
Program
• Part A (100%)
• Part B (100%)
• Part D (~40%)
• In 2015
– Tricare
– State APCDs
• Other commercial data – additional insurers
• SGR fix – Medicaid and CHIP
11. Academic Research Partnerships
HCCI has signed letters of intent with leading research,
actuarial, and government organizations for non-
commercial, non-proprietary, faculty, association and
government research studies and PhD dissertations.
Academic Partners
Dartmouth Yale
Penn Michigan
Minnesota MD Anderson
Northwestern One more to be announced
Medpac Congressional Budget Office
Academy of Actuaries Society of Actuaries
12. A Few More Points before . . .
• HCCI does not engage in any commercial proprietary
research
• The data contributors do not gain access to the
combined dataset
• HCCI does not perform commercial proprietary
research for the data contributors
• Everything is in the public domain and free
• We believe we are building out an essential part of
the health services research infrastructure – join the
effort
13. HCCI Transparency Tool
HCCI motivation:
• Consistent with our public mission
• We already had the data
• By working with insurers we have the
resources to pursue
Our original interest arose around Cycle III Grant
program
We can do it well – we can do it nationally. As a
nonprofit, our focus will be to deliver a best value
tool
14. Goals of the Transparency Initiative
1. Create a common consumer
experience that is the private
sector equivalent to
www.medicare.gov
2. Provide consumers with cost and
quality information, regardless of
insurance status. It will be free to
consumers
3. Give consumers a credible,
accurate data source through an
independent nonprofit
4. Improve markets by providing
accurate information to
consumers
15. Other Benefits of the Transparency
Initiative
• Achieve economies of scale
in creating a single source for
educating consumers that
also has the deep data to
inform that education
• Serve Medicaid and
Medicare managed care
• Drive standards on quality and cost. More reliable reported
values through the use of bigger data. [New partners
around integrated delivery and new payment models.
16. Introducing the go-to source for
independent cost and quality data
A free public-facing website:
• No registration
• No password
• No user identifier
• We will report data in as much specificity as the ‘thickness’ allows
(Nation, Region, State, MSA, zip code)
• We will report average prices paid for care, treatment and procedures
by procedure and episode along with descriptive statistics
• We will provide quality information and related consumer education.
This information will become more robust over time as we develop
industry standards and enhance site functionality.
We are designing an effective consumer experience,
easy to understand and navigate.
Initial release by Dec. 31, 2014
17. Consumer functionality
• Baseline site will present average cost data that serves as a
‘reference price’ for consumers.
• Information will be presented in a way that explains likely experience in a
care pathway– including total cost, the additive components, and quality
measures, where available.
• Costs will be geography-based
• Enhancements include severity, gender, and age search to better
refine cost, standardized quality information and expanded
comparative ability across search dimensions.
• Members of participating payers will have access to password-
protected cost and quality information to include copays, deductible,
network and insurer-specific quality information.
Baseline
public site
(Dec 2014)
Enhancements
Member
password
functionality
(2015)
18. Who the product serves
• The tool’s primary audience will be consumers
seeking health care cost information for themselves
or others.
• Secondarily, the tool will provide information to
interested media outlets, policy makers, providers,
academics and industry experts for research or
communications purposes.
• The tool will be available to anyone with a web
browser and internet access.
• HCCI is talking with several states about using the
site as a price/quality portal for state employees and
a quality portal for Medicaid.
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19. Creating value through collaboration
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• HCCI’s approach to transparency is unique:
• Access to unparalleled data set
• Ability to bring together diverse stakeholders to gain
consensus
• Serving a public, non-commercial mission
• A common industry-wide website delivers value:
• For consumers: Recognize and remember one source for
reliable cost and quality information (regardless of insurance
status or insurer)
• For providers: Industry-wide quality measures calculated
by independent organization
• For insurers: More reliable quality point estimates, and
shared investment in infrastructure
20. A Few More Points again . . .
• While each insurer is free to continue to maintain their own
website, it is HCCI’s hope that their efforts become redundant
• When logged in, an insured can access only their insurers’
information
• Insurers will not be able to use this tool to compare their
commercial arrangements
• This is not a plan compare tool for employers nor is it a tool for
shopping for insurance
• Some initial discussion about having this also be a provider
portal for updating networks so information is current