TITLE:
Collaborative Evaluation for the Utah All Payer Claims Database Capacity Enhancement
AUTHORS:
Jennifer H. Garvin, Jonathan H. Cardwell, Kristina Doing-Harris, Dan Bolton, Laverne A. Snow, Charles W. Hawley, Wu Xu
KEYWORDS:
All Payers Claims Database, Evaluation, HIT, Informatics, Public Health
JOURNAL NAME:
Technology and Investment,
Vol.9 No.2,
April
4,
2018
ABSTRACT: We present a process to evaluate the continuing
development of All Payer Claims Databases (APCDs) using a collaborative
evaluation process. Project teams enhanced the Utah APCD with improved analytic
capacity to provide online pricing and cost-transparency reports to support
health care reform in Utah. Our program evaluation efforts added key methods
and tools, building on recommendations in the APCD Development Manual to
provide evaluation data facilitating improvements [1]. These additions included a Collaborative Evaluation
Model, logic models, and development and use of best practices as measures.
Stakeholders found that the added use of best practices, logic models, and
frequent feedback to practitioners facilitated the project’s success. Since the
Collaborative Evaluation Model served a structural purpose, it was transparent
to the project teams.