CIVHC | Center for Improving Value in Health Care

06/26/2024

NEW from HSRI and CIVHC | Center for Improving Value in Health Care! Read "Putting Health Care Data on the Map" and discover tools and advantages of geocoding—assigning geographic coordinates to patient addresses—in all-payer claims databases. Explore ways that geocoding can enhance analyses that aim to address health care access, quality, and equity.

Read more: https://ow.ly/Z3Lt50SpoN2

08/15/2023

We're so thrilled to receive the prestigious Innovation in Data Dissemination Award for 2023 by the National Association of Health Data Organizations! Here's CEO Kristin Paulson accepting earlier this morning alongside Leanne Cadura from HSRI, our valued partners in producing the analysis.

The award highlights the release of the new Health Equity Analysis. Kristin says, "Receiving this recognition from among our national peers is truly an honor for CIVHC. This award underscores our unwavering commitment to making health care data accessible to a broad audiences, and highlights how we can use data to support our partners working to improve health and health equity.” https://conta.cc/3QEsoso

04/06/2023

Now available: CIVHC's Health Equity Analysis is the first of its kind to combine health care data from the CO APCD with social and economic information. Learn more and access this valuable tool: https://lnkd.in/gKmG6fju

03/17/2023

CIVHC is ready for the Madness! Learn more about how Health Care Data Analyst Dagmar Velez strategically made her selections for the NCAA tournament. Who do you have winning your bracket? https://lnkd.in/gnUUXfaH

Dagmar will be going head-to-head against Health Care Consultant (and pup) Rowi to see whose bracket reigns supreme. We'll be tracking to see who comes out on top! Click the link to read Dagmar's strategy to win.

03/16/2023

New Release: CIVHC's analysis on Affordable Payment Model use in is now available! Overall, APM payments have remained steady in our state. See the full analysis with breakouts by payer type, APM model, and more on the Affordability Dashboard: https://civhc.org/get-data/public-data/affordability-dashboard-2/

02/01/2023

New: CIVHC recently released the Provider Payment Tool showing how payments paid to providers vary across the state, the first health care transparency tool of its kind in Colorado. More: https://conta.cc/3HtvSIb

Learn more about the tool and CIVHC's February Webinar New Tool Unlocks Provider Health Care Payments in Colorado CIVHC recently released the Provider Payment Tool, the first health care transparency

01/27/2023

In this month's CIVHC newsletter: newly-released Data Byte, analyst Emma Anderson talks the updated services analysis, how the University of Colorado Denver and Northewestern University are using CO APCD data to dig into the health effects of fracking, and more:

CIVHC's January Newsletter Advancing Data | Creating Knowledge | Improving Lives January 2023 What's Included in this Month's Newsletter Long COVID Data Byte Change Agent Feature: University of Colora

12/16/2022

New release: Our (festive) December newsletter features our new Spanish Shop for Care Tool, some words from new CEO Kristin Paulson, our recent Data Byte release on accessibility of vasectomies and contraceptives in Colorado, and more! Read it here:

CIVHC's December Newsletter Advancing Data | Creating Knowledge | Improving Lives December 2022 What's Included in this Month's Newsletter Spanish Shop for Care Now Available Perspective Blog: Kristin

11/30/2022

New Release: CIVHC's Services Analysis was just updated to include data from January 2019 – January 2022, revealing a picture of telehealth prior to and nearly two years after the onset of the pandemic. How is the pandemic impacting telehealth utilization two years after onset? View the press release and interactive report:

Visits continue at much higher levels than pre-pandemic, particularly for behavioral health services Despite Decreases, Post-Pandemic Telehealth Visits Remain High With Majority of Visits for Mental

10/31/2022

In this month's newsletter: a new data byte on the impact of COVID-19 on preventive services, a data dive into breast cancer screenings in Colorado, analyst Kari Degerness talks end-of-life-care, and more:

CIVHC's October Newsletter Advancing Data | Creating Knowledge | Improving Lives October 2022 What's Included in this Month's Newsletter Data Byte: COVID-19 Data Dive: Breast Cancer Perspective Blog: