Evaluating health care innovations? Use CCHE’s new open-source evaluation toolkit to inform your strategy

Toolkit Background: CCHE partnered with the California Health Care Foundation to create an evaluation toolkit for tech partners who are interested in partnering with healthcare organizations to pilot and evaluate new services and products. Evaluation is a powerful tool for digital health companies to demonstrate impact, enhance program design, and strengthen their value proposition for fundraising and sales efforts. The goal is to provide a structured approach to evaluation with special attention to health equity and Medicaid populations. The toolkit includes evaluation fundamentals, suggested structure to build one’s own evaluation, and tools and resources for conducting an evaluation.

Toolkit Structure: The Toolkit is a downloadable interactive PDF. It is not meant to be read cover to cover, and has navigation built in to allow for easy access to relevant sections: 

1. Determining readiness to evaluate
2. Establishing an evaluation vision
3. Identifying evaluation measures and design
4. Operationalizing the evaluation plan

Within each section, there are links to templates and other resources for those who want to dig deeper into certain topics. Companies can access practical workbook templates and case study examples, both embedded within the toolkit and summarized: Evaluation Planning Workbook and Evaluation Planning Case Study.

If you just want a quick tour, this overview has all the highlights of the toolkit in 12 pages, and this 2-page checklist gives a quick summary of key questions and considerations.

While this toolkit was built for digital health companies, many of the tools and resources are applicable to different types of organizations and contexts.