REALD & SOGI Data Implementation into APAC
The All Payer All Claims (APAC) program is thrilled to announce its collaboration with the Equity and Inclusion Division in integrating the Race, Ethnicity, Language, Age, and Disability (REALD), and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data into APAC. This initiative, facilitated by the passing of SB 966 during the 2023 legislative session, empowers APAC to utilize REALD and SOGI data to evaluate equity in healthcare services at a more granular level.
The submission of REALD and SOGI data by mandated submitters is scheduled to begin on January 31, 2025, pending discussions within the APAC rules advisory committee and the formal rules hearing process.
For more information and an estimated timeline of this initiative, see the “APAC and REALD SOGI Implementation Project Summary" document.
APAC and REALD SOGI Implementation Project Summary
Enhanced APAC Data for Limited Data Sets
November 9, 2023
The Center for Health Statistics and the All Payer All Claims (APAC) program have linked birth and death vital records data and APAC claims. This linkage does not change the requirements for requesting files from each office but eases combined use after approval.
Making the linked records available will aid research by:
- Allowing researchers to more thoroughly analyze diagnoses and services reported in APAC and the health information reported on birth and death certificates; and
- Removing the need for researchers to request identified data (such as name and date of birth) to use for linking. This simplifies APAC's review of the data requests and project activity to link, remove, and store any identified data for project teams.
Each program (APAC and the Center for Health Statistics) applies its own laws and procedures to data requests. Review instructions on how to request APAC data with a linked vital records file.
Using APAC Data to Eliminate Racial Injustice
January 4, 2021
APAC is pleased to invite data requestors to apply for an optional incentive if they believe their project will identify concrete actions to eliminate health inequities stemming from historical and contemporary racial injustices and the inequitable distribution of resources and power (see Health Equity definition below). Interested requestors may complete an optional section of the APAC data request form to apply for incentives such as:
- Priority processing of requestor’s application
- Waiver of fees
- Priority production of data files
- Technical assistance from APAC analysts or other OHA staff
- Other provisions that the Director of Health Analytics may find appropriate
This option is open to requestors of either public use data sets or limited data sets. See more information on this option and
how to apply here.
Health Equity Definition
Oregon will have established a health system that creates health equity when all people can reach their full health potential and well-being and are not disadvantaged by their race, ethnicity, language, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, intersections among these communities or identities, or other socially determined circumstances.
Achieving health equity requires the ongoing collaboration of all regions and sectors of the state, including tribal governments to address:
- The equitable distribution or redistributing of resources and power; and
- Recognizing, reconciling and rectifying historical and contemporary injustices.