Initiatives

RAPHIC has a multi-fold purpose:

To serve in an information sharing capacity for those states who have developed, or are developing, an all payer healthcare claims database.
To work across states to harmonize the rules governing data collection and data release so that researchers and others will have access within 2-5 years to a regional all payer dataset; the goal is for the dataset to be seamless across state lines in terms of being a longitudinal record based on the patient.
To provide a multi-state analysis platform for policy analysis for various branches of state government.
To provide a technical users group forum to end users of the databases.

Current activities are focused on several themes:

Harmonizing the data collection and data release rules across the multiple state databases
Development of a strategy for integrating Medicare data into the all payer databases
Sharing of reporting applications being developed by individual states
Policy analysis
Providing support to other states developing all payer databases.