Going through treatment for cancer is like running your first marathon unprepared – terrifying, unpredictable, and with no option to turn back. You don’t really know what to expect or how your body is going to feel or react. There are ups and downs and some miles, especially the last, Read more…
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…
Administered by the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC), the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) is a vital tool for driving health care innovation. The CO APCD holds the potential to improve health care for everyone by providing cost and quality information that can help inform Read more…
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 Kristin Paulson, JD, MPH, CEO and President As the summer winds down and the evenings have begun to cool off with the first hints of fall, I’m reminded of how change is constant all around us. Whether it’s the seasons, kids growing up, or what shows Netflix is discontinuing Read more…
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…
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…
I talk about death a lot. So much so that I’ve made it a standard practice to warn my therapists about it during our first session so they don’t become alarmed. I explain that I’m a hospice volunteer and that I choose to sit with people who are actively dying Read more…
How did you go about your selections? Were any analytics used? What basketball metrics do you think are most important? I make most of my picks based off of the prediction models from FiveThirtyEight.com (538), a blog featuring political and sports analytics created by Nate Silver. Silver has done some Read more…
Clarification: I might get fired for this blog if I don’t say up front that health care transparency is 100% necessary and I wholeheartedly believe in it. But not for patients alone. Now that I have that out of the way…. There are some who believe that if we simply Read more…