About the Office of Health Analytics
The Office of Health Analytics manages more than a dozen data sources and programs that are used to inform policy and support health system transformation in Oregon. We provide reports and recommendations so that OHA leadership, the Governor, the Legislature, researchers and other community partners can better understand and improve upon the quality and equity of Oregon’s health care system and outcomes.
Health Analytics’ primary roles are to:
- Ensure the availability of high-quality reliable data through data system integration and transparent reporting;
- Analyze data, and develop strategies and tools to assess the performance of OHA programs; and
- Support OHA policy development, implementation, and evaluation.
Stacey Schubert, Director
Mission Statement
Health Analytics supports OHA's strategic goal to eliminate health inequities by analyzing and presenting data about Oregon's health systems and engaging partners to develop meaningful, community-centered insights.
Key elements of this Mission:
- OHA's strategic goal to eliminate health inequities – this goal provides important context and grounding for our work, as does OHA's definition of health equity. This means we must improve and evolve our work to support this goal. This could include shining a light on inequities that show up in Oregon's health systems, for example by stratifying data by populations more likely to face inequities.
- Health Analytics actions: support, analyze, present, engage, develop –these actions also rely on the foundational work of data management and stewardship, quality controls, transparency about sources and limitations, data visualization, and analytical rigor.
- Oregon's health system is broadly defined to include patients, health care providers, payers (including CCOs, Medicare, PEBB/OEBB and commercial), clinical organizations, OHA and state programs, health care regulators, pharmacy benefit managers, data reporters, health information technology (including electronic health records), health care licensing boards, and any other organization or individual involved in the provision of health care. “Health system" also refers to a specific organizational structure, for example from AHRQ: that “includes at least one hospital and at least one group of physicians that provides comprehensive care (including primary and specialty care) who are connected with each other and with the hospital through common ownership or joint management."
- Engaging partners to develop meaningful, community-centered insights – our work must help create meaning from and about the data we produce.
- Data are meaningful when they are used – to change policy, improve programs, provide transparency and accountability, and support communities.
- Key partners and audiences include legislators, policy makers and program leadership and staff, community groups, providers, the public, other states, federal agencies, and others.
- As we strive to eliminate health inequities, we are learning and aspiring to adopt practices and principles of data equity, including setting the conditions for data justice. While few components of our work today include community engagement and community-centered insights, we are building toward that future.
Health Analytics Teams
Health Analytics comprises ten teams as described below. Organizationally, four of those teams are matrixed with the Office of Health Information Technology and Analytics Infrastructure.
Behavioral Health Analytics
The Behavioral Health Analytics Team collects and analyzes health care claims, survey, and program data to support Medicaid and Behavioral Health programs and policy. This team supports behavioral health program decision making with customized portfolios of data products and services.
Lisa Wyman, Manager
Behavioral Health Quality Metrics
The Behavioral Health Quality Metrics Team supports the Behavioral Health Committee and other OHA divisions by providing expertise and developing quality incentive metrics for CCOs, health care providers, counties and other government entities.
Erin Macauley, Manager
Monitoring and Evaluation
The Monitoring and Evaluation Team primarily supports
Oregon's 1115 Medicaid waiver. This team ensures capacity to implement meaningful evaluations through quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, and ensures compliance with CMS requirements related to monitoring and evaluation.
Shubha Devadoss, Manager
Quality Metrics, Surveys and Reporting
The Quality Metrics, Surveys and Reporting Team oversees OHA's CCO Quality Incentive Program. This includes staffing the Metrics & Scoring Committee, tracking CCO performance metrics, assisting with the distribution of incentive payments, and preparing an interactive dashboard and other reporting. The team also administers the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey, which serves as the basis for some metrics.
Derek Reinke, Manager
Research and Data
The Research and Data Team collects, analyzes and reports on health care claims, hospital financial and utilization, and health care workforce data to inform health system policy and research. This team supports the All Payer All Claims, Health Care Workforce Reporting,
Hospital Reporting,
Health Care Market Oversight, and
Sustainable Health Care Cost Growth Target programs.
Piper Block, Manager
Coverage Analytics
The Coverage Analytics Team analyzes data about health care coverage of all types – both public and private – to support coverage policy development. The team also analyzes and reports data to support internal program operations and quality improvement for such programs as OHP Bridge and the Healthier Oregon Program. The information the team provides to programs and leadership supports decision-making and equitable access to comprehensive health care coverage. The team also administers two surveys supporting this work, the
Oregon Health Insurance Survey (OHIS) and the Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program (MHSIP).
Sara Kleinschmit, Manager
OHITAI Matrixed Teams
The following teams matrix between the Office of Health Analytics and the
Office of Health Information Technology and Analytics Infrastructure (OHITAI)
Susan Otter, Director
Analytics Technology and Data Equity
The Analytics Technology and Data Equity Team supports analytics and analytics-related technology functions across HPA. This team manages or advises on HPA analytics-related technology governance and IT investments and leads HPA technology initiatives to improve analytics and reporting. The Data Equity team provides leadership and support to HPA's analytics/reporting through implementing and expanding the use of demographic data, and in the application of principles of data equity to HPA teams' data management processes, reports, and analytic products.
Pablo Torrent, Manager
Infrastructure for Data Engagement and Access
The Infrastructure for Data Engagement and Access (IDEA) Team works to strengthen the connection between data and policy/decision makers advance by advancing the use of business intelligence tools and data visualization methods across HPA. Their work includes setting standards for reporting, offering training and technical guidance on reporting tools and enhancing analytical processes and infrastructure and maintaining the Data Request Tracking System (DRTS), which logs, tracks, and archives all data, report, and analytics requests handled by Health Analytics teams.
Vanessa Wilson, Manager
Medicaid Analytics and Data Integration
The Medicaid Analytics and Data Integration Team analyzes Medicaid health care claims and program data to support Medicaid programs, decision-making and policy. This team also oversees Medicaid data governance, and works with data requests and access, data strategy and integration, and data systems and infrastructure.
Chris Coon, Manager
Social Health Needs and Analytics Projects
The Social Health Needs and Analytics Projects Team provides technical and data support for OHA's work to implement Oregon's historic 1115 Medicaid Waiver (2022-2027), Medicaid children’s services such as the Early Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment benefit, and for other Medicaid special projects. This unit focuses on data collection, analysis and reporting related to new health-related social needs (HRSN) services, such as housing and food supports, for Medicaid members undergoing major life transitions.
Amanda Peden, Manager