Author(s)

Jennifer H. Garvin^1,2, Jonathan H. Cardwell^2,3, Kristina Doing-Harris^2,4, Dan Bolton², Laverne A. Snow², Charles W. Hawley^2,5, Wu Xu^2,5

¹Salt Lake City VA Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
³School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA.
⁴Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
⁵Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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.

All Payers Claims Database, Evaluation, HIT, Informatics, Public Health

Garvin, J. , Cardwell, J. , Doing-Harris, K. , Bolton, D. , Snow, L. , Hawley, C. and Xu, W. (2018) Collaborative Evaluation for the Utah All Payer Claims Database Capacity Enhancement. Technology and Investment, 9, 91-108. doi: 10.4236/ti.2018.92007.