Data resources for hospitals
You can’t improve what you don’t measure – and CPCQC programs are meant to help hospitals improve care for all patients. Data is a vital component of quality improvement, helping you track your progress towards program goals, identify areas of strength and opportunity, and notice where disparities may arise.
Submission of QI program data, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and payor, is also a key QI engagement requirement of SB24-175.
Read on for key guidance and resources on how to submit and view your QI initiative data.
Based on your data submissions, CPCQC generates visualizations of your progress in data dashboards.
As CPCQC completes a major internal data transition in 2026, program data dashboards exist in 2 separate platforms, depending on which program you’re enrolled.
How to View Data Dashboards for SOAR or Turning the Tide (maternal-only):
For SOAR or for hospitals submitting only maternal data in Turning the Tide (rather than dyadic data which includes infant records), dashboards will continue to be accessed via CPCQC’s website until further notice.
You may quickly access these dashboards at any time by clicking on the button titled “Dashboards” on the top right of this website and entering your login information. If you need to access to view your facility’s data dashboards and do not already have a CPCQC-created account with which to do so, please contact your QI advisor.
How to View Data Dashboards for SPARK, NEST, or for hospitals dually enrolled in both Turning the Tide and CHoSEN (who are submitting infant and maternal data to CPCQC):
In 2025, CPCQC began partnering with the Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) to support quality improvement data operations. As part of this partnership, some CPCQC quality improvement dashboards will be available in 2026 on CHA’s secure platform, which uses Microsoft Power BI. Users will sign in through Power BI using a CHA-issued Microsoft login rather than their existing hospital Microsoft/Office account. If you need to access to view your facility’s data dashboards and do not already have a CHA-created account with which to do so, please contact your QI advisor.
Track your team’s engagement in the Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative’s QI initiatives using your hospital engagement tracker. This hospital engagement tracker dashboard provides your team with a clear view of overall progress and tracks completion of annual engagement tasks required by SB24-175.
NEST
- Data collection plan
- Submit data in REDCap here
- View your data in Power BI here
- How to View Data in PowerBI:
SOAR
- Submit data in REDCap here
- View your SOAR dashboard here
- Annual Requirements for SOAR Hospitals
SPARK
- Data collection plan
- Submit data in REDCap here
- How to submit data for SPARK (video)
- View your data in Power BI here
- How to View Data in PowerBI:
TURNING THE TIDE
- Submit data in REDCap here
- View your dashboard here
- Need to edit/update a previous record in REDCap? Watch here.
- Improve Race, Ethnicity, and Language (REL) Data Collection for Better Patient Care: Watch CPCQC’s three-part webinar series to learn best practices for improving data collection and using it to drive quality improvement (QI):
- Webinar #1: Opportunities to improve race and ethnicity data collection: engaging patients in a culturally sensitive way to improve trust and comfort when asked to self-identify race, ethnicity, or other personal characteristics for QI purposes.
- Webinar #2: Opportunities Understanding quality improvement (QI) with a health equity lens: exploring QI activities and tools, especially those that incorporate a health equity lens, for process and outcome improvement. This foundational knowledge will provide context for the necessity to collect and use race, ethnicity, and language data.
- Webinar #3: Strategic communications about health equity and data collection: defining and communicating how and why hospitals are collecting REL data and how staff are engaging in QI activities to promote equity.
General
Below is a high-level overview. Read on for more detail on each component.
- Data submission: All QI data, including the biannual hospital readiness assessment, is submitted in REDCap.
- Data dashboards: In 2026, the platform for data dashboards depends on the QI program:
- Built in Tableau and embedded on CPCQC’s website: SOAR and Turning the Tide (maternal-only data for TtT)
- Built in Power BI and hosted by our partners at Colorado Hospital Association: NEST, SPARK, hospitals submitting both maternal data for Turning the Tide and infant data for CHoSEN as part of CPCQC’s dyadic care track
- Engagement Tracker: This portal tracks hospital participation and progress towards meeting SB24-175 engagement requirements. Hospitals and the CPCQC QI team work together to self-report QI engagement throughout the year (FAQ here).
- REDCap – to enter QI data or hospital readiness assessment data
- CPCQC’s Data Dashboards – to view QI data for SOAR and maternal-only Turning the Tide
- PowerBI Data Dashboards – to view QI data for SPARK, NEST, and Dyadic SUD care: after setting up a user account via the guide here, your data will be hosted at mychadata.com
REDCAP
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Program |
Due Date |
Calendar Link |
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SOAR |
Monthly, second Friday of the month |
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Turning the Tide |
Monthly, third Friday of the month |
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SPARK |
Quarterly on the 7th (January, April, and July 7th for the previous quarter) |
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NEST |
Monthly, second Friday of the month |
All QI data and hospital readiness assessments are collected in REDCap, a HIPAA-compliant data collection tool.
Step 1: Get a REDCap Account
- You must have a CPCQC-associated REDCap account and be assigned to the appropriate QI project(s) to enter data.
- For hospitals enrolling in a new cohort, accounts will be created for those identified as Data Champions on the enrollment interest form.
- If you need an account created, access to a project, or help troubleshooting, contact qi@cpcqc.org and cc data@cpcqc.org.
- If you’re not sure whether you already have an account created by CPCQC, try to log in or reset your password at https://redcap.vumc.org/.
Step 2: Access REDCap
- Log in at: https://redcap.vumc.org/
- QI data are submitted by designated hospital champions, as identified on the enrollment interest form.
Step 3: Enter or upload data
- Data can be entered directly into REDCap.
- REDCap also offers a data import template, which allows hospitals to upload data using a standardized Excel spreadsheet template instead of entering records individually.
If you are interested in this option, contact data@cpcqc.org. Be aware that your hospital will need to be able to create a report that matches CPCQC’s spreadsheet template exactly in order to utilize this option
Step 4: Training and support
- Watch data orientation and onboarding videos, including 10–15 minute “how-to” videos for each QI project, on CPCQC’s YouTube Channel.
- Data is processed by our maternal health data analyst, Luis Montes, situated in CHA (Colorado Hospital Association), during the last week of each month. If data is submitted prior to data processing, that data will be surfaced in the data dashboard. Otherwise, the data will not be surfaced until the following month when the data is processed again.
- Check out the data processing calendar here to see when data is processed. Dates are subject to change based on holidays and vacation.
- Emails to data@cpcqc.org will include Luis, if you have specific questions about the data processing schedule for any given month.
Contact qi@cpcqc.org and cc data@cpcqc.org to have other individuals added to REDCap/your QI project.
Hospital Readiness Assessments are collected at the beginning and end of the year in REDCap. They will be surfaced as a separate data collection form within the REDCap project of your assigned QI initiative.
Yes! Go to your Record Status Dashboard within REDCap, click the colored circle by any given record, and you can update any fields within the form and save it again. Changes will be reflected in the data dashboard the next time the data is processed.
Data Dashboards
For SOAR and Turning the Tide (maternal-only data), login to CPCQC’s dashboard website (https://cpcqc.org/cpcqc-login/) to view your QI program data. If logged in, you can always quickly find your dashboards on cpcqc.org by clicking the “Dashboards” button at the top right of the screen. Click on the relevant QI program and explore the tabs of the dashboard. For technical issues related to CPCQC dashboard access, contact data@cpcqc.org.
For SPARK, NEST, and Dyadic data for Turning the Tide/CHoSEN, log in to PowerBI dashboards by logging into mychadata.com with your CHA-issued Microsoft account. Follow these instructions to set up that account. For technical issues related to Microsoft/Power BI or ODHIN access, contact odhin.admin@cha.com.
Generally, the dashboards are updated the last week of each month. You can view the data processing calendar here, which shows data due dates and data processing dates.
Nearly all data that is entered into REDCap, for all time that your hospital has participated in the program. For SOAR, the dashboard also includes data from CDPHE Vital Statistics (the birth certificate). Hospital Readiness Assessments will also be available in all dashboards in 2027.
We encourage you to regularly log into the dashboard to explore your data to support QI objectives. We also encourage you to share your progress with your team during unit-wide meetings to ensure dissemination and buy-in across the entire unit. Your QI advisor will also review the dashboard with you on a quarterly basis to evaluate progress, answer questions, etc.
Currently, no. This is forthcoming as we transition all dashboards to Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) in 2027. For additional information about how to use the dashboards, connect with your QI advisor or email qi@cpcqc.org. Your QI advisor will be able to answer most questions about program data, but will pull in the data team for additional support on any technical questions, as necessary.
Talk to your QI advisor by emailing them directly or emailing qi@cpcqc.org. Your QI advisor will be able to answer most questions about program data, but will pull in the data team for additional support on any technical questions, as necessary.