Analyses Utilizing MHDO Data

Multiple organizations use data from MHDO for a variety of analytic purposes. Most of these analyses must be made public as a condition of the use of MHDO data. Below are reports and analyses using our data.

• Maine Quality Forum's Second Annual Report on Behavioral Health Care Spending - March 2024
• Maine Quality Forum's Annual Primary Care Spending report - February 2024
• Maine Quality Forum developed an annual report on behavioral health care spending using claims data from the Maine Health Data Organization. Here is the first Annual Behavioral Health Care Spending report. - March 2023
• Maine Quality Forum's Fourth Annual Primary Care Spending report - February 2023
• Maine Quality Forum's Third Annual Primary Care Spending report - February 2022
• Maine Quality Forum's Second Annual Primary Care Spending report - February 2021
• Maine Quality Forum's First Annual Report on Primary Care Spending including the methods used to reimburse primary care providers from payers - January 2020
• Understanding Trends in Telehealth Use: An All-Payer Claims Analysis in Maine prepared by New England Rural Health Association - November 2019
• Healthcare Associated Infections in Maine, 2018 Annual Report prepared by the Maine Quality Forum in collaboration with the Maine CDC and Muskie. - May 2018
• Final Evaluation Report of the Maine Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot 2010-2012 prepared by the Muskie School of Public Service for the Maine Quality Forum - November 2016
• Healthcare Associated Infections in Maine, 2016 Annual Report prepared by the Maine Quality Forum in collaboration with the ME-CDC and Muskie. - April 2016
• Estimation of Agricultural and Logging Injury Incidence in Maine Using Electronic Administrative Data Sets published 4/23/15 in the Journal of Agromedicine - by Erika E. Scott, Nicole L. Krupa, Melissa Horsman & Paul L. Jenkins
• Geographic Access to Interventional Cardiology Services in Maine In preparation for Heart & Lung: the Journal of Acute and Critical Care - by James P. Rhudy, Jr., Anne W. Alexandrov, E. Kristi’ina Hyrkas, Rita A. Jablonski-Jaudon, Erica R. Pryor, Henry E. Wang, and Marie A. Bakitas
• Healthcare Associated Infections in Maine, 2015 Annual Report prepared by the Maine Quality Forum in collaboration with the ME-CDC and Muskie. - June 2015
• Healthcare Associated Infections in Maine, 2014 Annual Report prepared by the Maine Quality Forum in collaboration with the ME-CDC and Muskie.
• 2013 Annual Health report Card
• Kids Count 2013
• Healthcare Associated Infections in Maine, 2013 Annual Report prepared by Dirigo Health Agency/Maine Quality Forum
• Maine Health Management Coalition / Onpoint Health Data: Hospital Cost Comparison, January 2013
• Oral Health Care in Maine December 2012 - Report in response to Resolves 2011 Chapter 92 (LD1105) Resolve, To Study Oral Health Care in Maine and Make Recommendation Regarding How to Address Maine’s Oral Health Care Needs
• Report of the Survey of Dental Safety Net Providers in Maine - December 2012 Prepared for Medical Care Development and completed by The Center for Health Workforce Studies
• Analytic Models to Identify Patients at Risk for Prescription Opioid Abuse - published in The American Journal of Managed Care, Vol. 15, Issue 12, December 2009, Pages 891-906.
• All-Payer Analysis of Variation in Healthcare in Maine, Conducted on behalf of Dirigo Health Agency’s Maine Quality Forum & The Advisory Council on Health Systems Development April, 2009
• The Epidemiology of Case Fatality Rates for Suicide in the Northeast from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 43, Issue 6, June 2004, Pages 723–730.
• Management of Adult Splenic Injury: A 20 Year Perspective as presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the New England Surgical Society, September 2002.
• Decreasing Incidence of Burn Injury in a Rural State - published in Injury Prevention, Vol. 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 259-262.