We recently hosted a webinar with Amelia Roebuck (Research Scientist, Parkview Health Services and Informatics Research), Kerri Mattern (Leader, Community Health Initiatives, Parkview Wabash Hospital), and Metopio’s COO and co-founder, Angie Grover, on how solid data infrastructure can fuel coordinated action across organizations. Here's what was shared.

Every public health department has heard an AI pitch by now, and most have (rightly) learned to be a little skeptical of it. Generative AI is embedded in nearly every tool on the market, but "AI-powered" doesn't always mean useful, and it definitely doesn't always mean safe for a field that handles sensitive community and health data. 

It's worth asking a more specific question than "should we use AI?" The better question is: where, exactly, can AI save real time on the work your team already does — and where should it stay out of the way entirely? 

In a recent webinar, Metopio’s VP of Data, Heather Blonsky, and Data Analyst Jaelyn Braswell, who work directly with health departments and hospitals on their assessments, dug into three of the most commonly shared Community Health Improvement cycle priorities: food insecurity, access to care, and maternal health. Here's what they covered. 

If your health department runs a Community Health Assessment, you already know the drill: months of pulling data from scattered sources, reconciling formats that don't match, building charts by hand, and writing narrative sections that summarize numbers you spent weeks assembling. Here's what automation actually looks like, and how to tell if your department is ready for it. 

By the time most teams finish a Community Health Assessment, they're not short on problems — they're drowning in them. The hard part isn't the data collection. It's deciding what to do with it. Here's a scoring framework for prioritizing community health needs in a way that's defensible to your board, meaningful to your community, and actually actionable.

See how Michigan health departments are using Metopio to automate CHAs, track CHIP outcomes, and turn community data into action. Get a look at real Michigan public health data.

If everyone around you is sprinting through a CHA and you're afraid to ask the big questions, this guide is for you. From what a community health assessment actually is to how the process works step by step, here's everything a first-timer needs to know — including a few mistakes worth avoiding before you get started!

County-level health data has its place — but if your community health assessment stops there, you're almost certainly missing the people who need attention most. Here's what gets buried in the numbers and how sub-county analysis changes what's possible for health equity work.

Read the story of the Western Idaho Community Health Collaborative (WICHC) — a 16-organization, 10-county collaborative that conducted Idaho's first-ever collaborative Community Health Needs Assessment in 2023 — as shared in a 2026 Metopio webinar.

Community benefit work is under more scrutiny than ever. Here's how to frame a Metopio investment in terms your hospital leadership will act on.

Making the case for Metopio? Start here. A practical guide to building leadership buy-in for public health teams, from compliance arguments to ROI.

What happens to your CHIP after the final presentation? For a lot of health departments and hospital teams, the honest answer is: not much. The plan gets filed, momentum fades, and three years later the cycle starts over with the same challenges.

It doesn't have to go that way. Read this post to see what the organizations breaking that pattern are doing differently.

For years, community health strategy has operated separately from clinical quality, population health, and operational teams. According to Metopio CEO Will Snyder, that's finally starting to change — and the organizations leading the next era of healthcare transformation are the ones building shared infrastructure to make it stick.

Read a recap of Metopio’s live presentation from the 2026 AHA Healthier Together Conference, featuring CHRISTUS Health and the Louisiana Public Health Institute.

At the 2026 NNPHI Annual Conference, leaders from the Illinois Public Health Institute, Louisiana Public Health Institute, and Metopio explored a question public health practitioners face every cycle: what does it actually take to close the gap between assessment and action? The answer isn't a better template. It's sustained capacity, shared data infrastructure, and a commitment to measuring impact in real time.

For many teams, the launch of a Community Health Atlas represents months of work — curating data, aligning stakeholders, and building the case internally for why a transparent, community-accessible dashboard matters. 

Then launch day arrives! There’s a press release, a social media post, and some internal celebration when the link goes live. But what happens next? Get tips in this blog post.

What if you could see an RSV surge coming before it hit your emergency departments? What if you could pinpoint exactly which neighborhoods needed a targeted intervention and why? 

That's the kind of decision-making that becomes possible when real-time, multi-source surveillance data meets local community context — and it's exactly what the new partnership between PopHIVE at the Yale School of Public Health and Metopio is designed to make a reality for public health departments and hospitals across the country. 

Maternal and child health data is most powerful when it's treated as a spectrum — not a snapshot of the delivery room, but a continuous picture of conditions before, during, and after pregnancy. Dive into Metopio’s data here.

NACCHO recently hosted a webinar with Erica and Metopio COO Angie Grover to talk about how Madison County transformed their approach to community health assessment and planning. If you missed it (or want the highlights without watching the replay), this blog post shares what was covered. 

Metopio enables states and rural health organizations to answer RHTP's toughest questions using the same metrics federal agencies use internally. Our platform was built from the ground up for rural health assessment, houses real-time CMS and HRSA datasets, and supports operational continuity so Year 2 reporting doesn't mean rebuilding Year 1. The states that will succeed aren't just the ones with good ideas — they're the ones with data systems that can deliver!