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Insights for Hospitals and Public Health
From hospitals to health departments, discover how leaders are using shared data and automation to accelerate assessments, streamline planning, and drive measurable community impact.
Public Health Performance Management: Takeaways from ASTHO’s Solutions Showcase
At ASTHO’s Performance Management Solutions Showcase, Metopio demonstrated how agencies can connect assessments, improvement plans, and performance measures in one platform. Public Health Madison & Dane County shared how the approach strengthens the case for resources.
How Health Departments Track CHIP Progress: NACCHO Webinar Recap
Setting goals is easy. Tracking them is where CHIPs stall. Here’s how Cook County and First District Health Unit are closing the loop, and what Metopio’s new PM/QI module changes.
From CHNA to Community Benefit
When the CHNA, Implementation Strategy, and community benefit reporting share one evidence chain, boards see what changed — not just what was filed. Learn more in this blog post.
Why Your Community Health Data Needs a Public Home
A branded, self-service Health Atlas replaces one-off data requests with public, always-current access to the story behind your community's numbers. Read more about it!
Mapping Food Deserts by Drive Time: Takeaways From the SDOH and Places Symposium
Metopio data analyst Jaelyn Braswell recaps her talk at the 2026 SDOH and Places Symposium and what drive time reveals about food deserts.
What Switching from Spreadsheets to Metopio Actually Looks Like
No blank slate, no IT project — here's what the first few weeks of switching from spreadsheets to Metopio actually involve.
Inside Metopio's AI: What It Actually Does for Your Community Health Improvement Cycle
From qualitative theme-coding to first-draft narratives, here's exactly what Metopio's AI does for your Community Health Improvement Cycle — and what it deliberately won't touch!
5 Signs Your Department Has Outgrown Spreadsheets for Community Health Work
From "which file is the real one" to board questions that need a week — here are 5 signs your community health work has outgrown spreadsheets (and what to do about it instead).
Metopio vs. a Generic BI Dashboard: Why Public Health Needs Purpose-Built Tools
A generic BI tool can visualize your data — it just doesn't come with the data, the documentation, or the automated Community Health Assessment workflow built in.
Beyond the RHTP Buzz: Is Your Rural Community Ready to Scale What Works?
ASTHO's Dr. Susan Kansagra and Metopio's Angie Grover break down how states are structuring Rural Health Transformation Program funding — and what your organization needs in place to be ready when investment opportunities open up.
How Parkview Health Is Tackling Rural Cancer Disparities
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.
Where AI Actually Helps in Public Health Data Work (and Where It Shouldn't)
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?
Discussing Your Biggest Community Health Improvement Cycle Data Topics & Priorities
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.
A Practical Guide to Automating Your Community Health Assessment (and CHIP) Process
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.
Prioritization: How to Go From 20 Community Needs to 5
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.
A Michigan Public Health Deep Dive: What State Public Health Leaders Are Asking About Data (and What Metopio Makes Possible)
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.
CHA 101: A Beginners Guide to Community Health Assessments
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!
Is Your County-Level Data Hiding Critical Disparities?
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.
Collaboration in an Era of Seismic Market Shifts
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.
How to Make the Case for Metopio to Your Hospital System Leadership
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.