Health Data

Why the Time Has Come for Statewide Data Exchange in California

Data Exchange, Health Equity, Investing in Innovation

The ability to share appropriate health data will be critical as the state moves forward with its CalAIM initiative.

CalAIM and Health Data Sharing

Data Exchange, Medi-Cal

The California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) program seeks to enhance information exchanged among managed care plans, providers, and county agencies. Learn more in this report, CalAIM and Health Data Sharing: A Road Map for Effective Implementation of Enhanced Care Management and In Lieu of Services.

2021 Edition — Quality of Care: Providers

This set of quality measures focuses on providers, including ambulatory surgery centers, emergency departments, inpatient hospitals, nursing homes, home health care, and hospice.

2021 Edition — Quality of Care: Behavioral Health

This set of quality measures focuses on behavioral health, including mental health and substance use.

2021 Edition — Health Care Costs 101

Katherine Wilson

Health Care Costs, Payment & Financing

Health Care Costs 101: US Spending Growth Outpaces Economy provides a detailed look at national health care spending in 2019, just prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advancing Data Exchange in California

This series of reports sponsored by CHCF is aimed at helping inform California decisionmakers about statewide data exchange. These reports focus on how other states have approached statewide health information exchange; the existing electronic health record networks, regional health information organizations, and competing infrastructure that currently exist in California; and the challenges and policy options for the state going forward.

Health Information Exchange in California: Assessment of Regional Market Activity and Overview of Network Types and Characteristics

Intrepid Ascent, Jill Yegian

This regional market assessment describes how different forms of health information exchange play out in four California regions: Los Angeles County, Fresno and the surrounding area, the Sacramento metropolitan area, and Humboldt County. It is accompanied by an issue brief that offers a high-level overview of the types of infrastructure used to exchange health-related information.

Why California Needs Better Data Exchange: Challenges, Impacts, and Policy Options for a 21st Century Health System

This report looks at how a fragmented data exchange ecosystem affects the ability of medical, behavioral, and public health providers to deliver critical services, and the impact these issues have on the Californians they serve.

Designing a Statewide Health Data Network: What California Can Learn from Other States

HealthTech Solutions

This report explores how four states have successfully deployed statewide health data networks, also known as health information exchanges. The framework for success that Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, and New York have forged offers lessons for California in how to develop its own statewide health information network.

New Federal Data Rules Loom Large

October 23, 2020

Many Medi-Cal plans and safety-net providers feel unprepared to comply with the new standards.

Understanding the New Federal Data Interoperability Requirements

In March, federal rules designed to improve how health care organizations collect and share patient data were released. This slide deck provides a high-level introduction to these complex rules with a focus on implications for health plans, which face some of the earliest and more daunting compliance deadlines.

2020 Edition — Quality of Care: Chronic Conditions

This set of quality measures highlights California’s performance across a range of chronic conditions, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease.

2020 Edition — Quality of Care: Children’s Health

This set of quality measures focuses on children's health.

Shortchanged: Health Workforce Gaps in California

Homelessness & Health Care, Workforce

An estimated 11,226,111 people in California live in an area that has a shortage of primary care providers. Approximately 150,675 people are experiencing homelessness and in need of housing, health, and social services. It is critically important to fill the health workforce gaps across California to meet these needs. What are the numbers in your region?

2020 Edition — Long-Term and End-of-Life Care in California

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

This Almanac report describes the state’s supply and use of long-term care services, Medicare and Medi-Cal spending on services, and quality of care.