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Data Matters - January 2023 Edition Email
January 31, 2023
In this Issue: Opening Message News You Can Use Data User Profile Publications and Data Releases Upcoming Events and Resources Join Our Team Opening Message Happy 2023! CHIA has been busy, as we wrap up the first...

CHIA Releases First Dashboard to Measure the Health of the Massachusetts Primary Care System
January 25, 2023
The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), in collaboration with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), is releasing Massachusetts’ first-ever dashboard of metrics to monitor the health of the primary...

CHIA ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF MA APCD CY 2021 RELEASE
December 20, 2022
The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) has announced the availability of the most recent Massachusetts All-Payer Claims Database (MA APCD).The MA APCD Calendar Year (CY) 2021 release features...

CHIA Publishes Latest Report on MA Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data
December 15, 2022
The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) today released its latest report offering insights into hospital inpatient utilization patterns. The Massachusetts Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data (HIDD) report...

Data Matters - November 2022 Edition Email
November 30, 2022
Opening Message: Ten years ago this November, the Center for Health Information and Analysis was created as part of a statewide effort to control the growth of health care costs,...

CHIA Releases Report on Behavioral Health and Readmissions in Massachusetts Acute Care Hospitals
October 13, 2022
CHIA today released its most recent report on Behavioral Health and Readmissions in Massachusetts Acute Care Hospitals in SFY 2020. Increasingly, efforts to reduce readmissions have focused on developing strategies...

Data Matters - September 2022 Edition Email
September 29, 2022
Opening Message: Highlighted in this issue of DataMatters is CHIA’s report on the quarterly financial performance of Massachusetts hospitals and health systems, with data through June 30, 2022. Read the...

CHIA Releases First Report On Massachusetts Primary Care And Behavioral Health Expenditures
September 20, 2022
The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) today published its first report on primary care and behavioral health expenditures in Massachusetts. This report covers data for calendars years 2019...

CHIA Reports on Provider Price Variation in the Commonwealth
August 31, 2022
CHIA has published its annual update on provider price variation in the commercial health insurance market. Relative price (RP) facilitates the comparison of average provider prices accounting for differences in...

Data Matters - July 2022 Edition Email
July 28, 2022
Opening Message: In this installment of DataMatters, CHIA is pleased to announce the release of an interactive dashboard on selected clinical quality measures for 2018 and 2020, featured under...