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The Center for Health Affairs Partners with ORock Technologies to Offer IT Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions

The Center for Health Affairs Partners with ORock Technologies to Offer IT Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions

The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, today announced a strategic partnership with ORock Technologies, a high-performance hybrid cloud service provider built on OpenStack and certified by FedRAMP and the Department of Defense.

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The Center for Health Affairs Launches COVID-19 Data Visualization Framework

The Center for Health Affairs Launches COVID-19 Data Visualization Framework

The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, announces the launch of the COVID-19 Dynamic HPI, a publicly available web application that allows for the monitoring and analysis of pandemic-related data through live key performance indicators (KPIs), analytics and dashboards.

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The Center for Health Affairs Welcomes Christine Dodd as Executive Director of Member Programming

The Center for Health Affairs Welcomes Christine Dodd as Executive Director of Member Programming

The Center for Health Affairs is happy to announce Christine Dodd has joined the organization as executive director of member programming.

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The Center for Health Affairs Collaborating with Cleveland-Based Lazurite to Revolutionize the Operating Room with Smart Surgical Tools

The Center for Health Affairs Collaborating with Cleveland-Based Lazurite to Revolutionize the Operating Room with Smart Surgical Tools

The Center for Health Affairs, the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, and its business affiliate CHAMPS Healthcare, today announced its collaboration with Cleveland-based medical device startup company Lazurite (formerly Indago) to bring revolutionary smart surgical tools to market and to operating rooms across Northeast Ohio and the United States.

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Opioid Consortium Updates: Harm Reduction Supplies Distribution, Opioid Management Toolkit & More

Opioid Consortium Updates: Harm Reduction Supplies Distribution, Opioid Management Toolkit & More

The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium advanced objectives related to harm reduction and education this spring through several initiatives, including the distribution of supplies donated by Buckeye Health Plan, the launch of the Opioid Management Toolkit and more.

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New HEALing Communities Study Resources Coming in July, Naloxone Awareness Materials Available

New HEALing Communities Study Resources Coming in July, Naloxone Awareness Materials Available

Through the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, The Center for Health Affairs in April signed on to join the HEALing Communities Study’s (HCS) Ohio opioid education campaign, a federally funded initiative aimed at preventing opioid overdose deaths.

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RWJF-Funded Cuyahoga County Initiative Advances Work to Eliminate Structural Racism

RWJF-Funded Cuyahoga County Initiative Advances Work to Eliminate Structural Racism

A collaborative initiative led by Case Western Reserve University and funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has begun the complex work of addressing systemic racism in Cuyahoga County.

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HHS Revises PRF Reporting Requirements

HHS Revises PRF Reporting Requirements

The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in June an extension of the deadline by which hospitals and other providers that received COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund money after June 30, 2020, must use their payments.

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Healthy Northeast Ohio News: Vaccine Ambassador Resources, Regional Convening & More

Healthy Northeast Ohio News: Vaccine Ambassador Resources, Regional Convening & More

Healthy Northeast Ohio, the online repository that provides hospitals and other key stakeholders with data to support regional and community health improvement activities, this month launched its Vaccine Ambassador Toolkit to support vaccination efforts within Northeast Ohio.

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