Nurturing Growth: Year One

By Twanisha Parnell, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer I joined the Center for Improving Value in Health Care one year ago following decades working for nonprofits in education, youth services, and affordable program enriched housing. I had very limited health care experience and honestly didn’t quite know what I was Read more

By CIVHC, ago

Visual Storytelling with CO APCD Data

By Emma Anderson, MA, Senior Health Care Reporting Analyst, Team Lead It’s a massive, carefully coordinated effort to define, gather, and clean data from 40 distinct payers, but ultimately the payoff is huge.  With over one billion claims in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD), there are seemingly Read more

By Spencer Fortier, ago

Part II: The Man in the Arena

This is Part II of a previous blog, “Not Every Fight Ends at the Bell”. The words were crushing. Exiting the ring out of the blue corner, the fatigue and exhaustion sank in but the agony of defeat overrode everything. I wanted to win. Instead, I failed. Failed to meet Read more

By Spencer Fortier, ago

Not Every Fight Ends at the Bell

I had been asking my girlfriend this question over and over. At the end of January, I found myself doing my usual routine of scrolling through internet and social media updates and a promotion, shared by a friend, caught my eye. It was calling for applications for the next Haymakers Read more

By Spencer Fortier, ago