The state’s health insurance exchange, Access Health CT, said it has selected Maine-based Onpoint Health Data to prove data management and analytics services for its all payer claims database.
The five-year contract is valued at $6.9 million.
The database, created by a 2012 state law, is meant to provide insight into healthcare utilization and cost trends. Insurers are required to submit claims data to the database.
Under the contract, Onpoint — which manages APCDs in Rhode Island, Vermont and Minnesota — will build database infrastructure and develop reporting and analytics and web hosting.
One of the nonprofit company’s duties will be scrubbing personal details from data, a process known as “de-identifying,” before releasing it to researchers and other requesters. It will also create reports and a website for the public to look at trends.
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