GRC’s expert staff enhance research projects by creating interactive data dashboards that provide users with informative, easy to understand visualizations of policy-relevant data and information. The examples highlighted below utilize publicly available data. GRC also constructs dashboards in a HIPAA compliant environment with sensitive data, including PHI, that are password protected and can only be viewed by approved users.
OHIO MEDICAID ASSESSMENT SURVEY (OMAS) DASHBOARDS
The Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey (OMAS) is a multi-mode random probability survey that delivers health and healthcare data and gives insight into the health status of Ohio’s Medicaid, Medicaid-eligible, and non-Medicaid populations. The OMAS Dashboard include data from 2010 - 2023, provide current snapshots of Ohio’s healthcare landscape, examine trends over time, and compare key populations. These tools provide fast, real-time results. You can direct how the survey data are analyzed without performing any programming and can build and download custom extracts of the OMAS results.
The Ohio Pregnancy Assessment Survey Series Dashboard
The Ohio Pregnancy Assessment Survey (OPAS) Series is administered by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) with the assistance of the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC). The OPAS is a statewide, ongoing, targeted population-based survey that utilizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) methodology to collect information and attitudes on Ohio residents who had a live birth in Ohio. The OPAS Dashboard allows you to obtain a data-driven view of maternal and infant health (MIH) in Ohio. Without knowing any programming or statistical techniques, you can analyze OPAS data, examining trends and comparing key population groups.
Ohio Family Violence Prevention Project (OFVPP) Dashboard
These data are designed to help local stakeholders and policy makers understand and communicate the scope of family violence in their community. On this site, you can access data on child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and elder abuse for:
- The Entire State of Ohio
- All 88 Ohio Counties
- Ohio Area Agencies on Aging
- Ohio Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health (ADAMH) Boards (Multi-County)
Ohio COVID-19 Survey (OCS) Dashboards
To assist Ohio's health and human services agencies to evaluate challenges presented by COVID-19, the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC) is fielding the Ohio COVID-19 Survey (OCS) as a weekly tracking tool to detect the impact of COVID-19 as the disease progresses over time.
The OCS is an extension of the 2019 Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey (OMAS), with the sample being a subsample from the 2019 OMAS participants. For information about the OMAS methodology and the complete OMAS Series datasets, please visit the OMAS homepage.
The OCS dashboard features:
- Self-reported COVID-19 symptoms and prevalence of COVID screenings
- Physical and mental health risks and stressors
- Remote and non-remote access to health care and delays in care
- Experiences of COVID-19-associated work stoppages and financial distress
- Food insecurity
- Practices of social distancing