Data to Drive Decisions: Health Equity Analysis
Social factors such as race, education, income, housing, and transportation can have a major impact on a person’s ability to live a healthy life and play a powerful, fundamental role in health outcomes and health equity for individuals and entire communities. In fact, studies have found that up to 80% Read more…
Data to Drive Decisions: The Community Dashboard
The Community Dashboard helps Change Agents across the state and nation understand how different aspects of health care – cost, utilization, access to care, and quality – vary across Colorado communities. The latest iteration of the Community Dashboard is now available and contains important trend information from 2013-2021. This data can be Read more…
Data to Drive Decisions: The CO APCD Scholarship Fund
The Colorado General Assembly provides $500,000 annually to help offset the cost of licensing non-public data from the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) for eligible organizations. The funding becomes available July 1st, 2023 and is available on a first come, first serve basis. Join us on Thursday, June Read more…
CO APCD Data User Group
November’s Data User Group meeting will feature speakers from the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) and CIVHC analysts as they discuss how data from each organization can combine to tell the whole story of health care in Colorado. The Vital Statistics Program is the official record Read more…
January Data User Group Meeting
The January CO APCD Data User Group meeting will feature analysts from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) discussing how they use per-unit cost analysis in various reports. Skill: Analysis of per-unit costs Before performing any analysis including per-unit costs, analysts must determine how to approach the Read more…