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Interactive Data and Analysis

Many of CHIA's recent reports include interactive dashboards to help better visualize data and perform customizable analyses.

CHIA is continuing to expand the use of data visualizations to help policymakers, insurers, health care providers, employers, and researchers more easily explore CHIA’s comprehensive data resources.

A selection of some of our recent interactive data and analyses are outlined and linked below. These help promote transparency and a better understanding of the Massachusetts health care system.

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    CHIA, in collaboration with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners has published the latest primary care dashboard to monitor the health of the primary care system in the Commonwealth. A high-functioning primary care system can lead to better patient outcomes, lower costs, and more equitable care. Access to these services improves overall population health and can reduce avoidable emergency department visits. Read more...

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    Hospitals and the health systems to which they belong play an important role in the Massachusetts health care system and are critical to achieving the Commonwealth’s goals of controlling costs while improving the quality of care delivered. In an effort to provide a more comprehensive look at the acute hospital industry, CHIA has merged hospital and hospital health system data into one interactive dashboard below. This dashboard includes both financial and utilization data. Read more....

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    Enrollment Trends monitors health insurance coverage in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where coverage is defined by unique Massachusetts residents with primary, medical membership in the 14 largest commercial payers, MassHealth (Medicaid), or Medicare.  Read more...

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    CHIA has developed dashboards providing analyses and trends sourced from the Massachusetts Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Discharge (Case Mix) Database. These dashboards give insights into hospital inpatient emergency department and outpatient observation utilization patterns. Read more....

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    The Massachusetts Employer Survey (MES) is an ongoing health insurance survey that tracks and monitors employer health insurance offerings, employee take-up rates, cost-sharing, plan characteristics, and employer decision-making. The MES interactive data analysis tool provides valuable insights into the employer health insurance market, including how the landscape of workplace health benefits has shifted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent cost pressures. Read more.....

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    This data visualization provides in-depth readmission statistics for each Massachusetts hospital broken out by several factors and presented in the context of the statewide figures. Read more....

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    CHIA has produced its inaugural dashboard of metrics to monitor the performance of behavioral health care in the Commonwealth Behavioral health encompasses services and treatment for both mental health and substance use disorders (SUD), an array of vital services that can meaningfully shape patient outcomes. Measuring and tracking indicators of behavioral health care provides an essential fact base that enables data-driven policymaking and delivery system reforms. As demonstrated by metrics from this year’s dashboard, while rates of follow-up care have increased, difficulties and disparities in accessing care highlight gaps in the Massachusetts behavioral health system. Read more....