Cuenta de alto costo

What Cuenta de alto costo does

Cuenta de Alto Costo (CAC) is a Colombian nonprofit organization founded in 2007 that functions as the official national registry and statistical authority for high-cost diseases within Colombia's General Social Security Health System (SGSSS). Created under the regulatory framework of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and reinforced through multiple ministerial resolutions (0247/2014, 2463/2014, 0123/2015, 1393/2015, 273/2019), CAC is legally mandated to aggregate, audit, and disseminate data on six high-cost disease categories — rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, chronic kidney disease, hemophilia, hepatitis C, and HIV — plus additional tracked conditions such as hypertension and multiple sclerosis. The organization was certified in 2023 by DANE under NTC-PE 1000:2020 statistical quality standards, with certification valid through 2027.

CAC operates an integrated digital ecosystem of six core platforms: SISCAC (the secure information system used by healthcare entities to report disease data), HIGIA (a public-facing platform with Power BI dashboards that democratizes access to aggregated statistical results), Portal de Conocimiento (a knowledge repository of consensus documents, annual situation reports, and technical tools), Plataforma de Aulas Virtuales (a Moodle-based e-learning environment for healthcare professional training), Comunidad de Buenas Prácticas (a collaborative learning community), and Mesa de Ayuda (a help desk). The data warehouse holds millions of audited records spanning 15+ years. CAC produces evidence-based clinical quality indicators developed through Delphi and nominal group methodologies with scientific society expert panels, and publishes institutional rankings of IPS and EAPB performance.

CAC's business model is government-funded: as a nonprofit operating in the public interest, it receives budgetary allocations from the Colombian health system and provides all data, publications, platforms, and educational content free of charge under an explicit open-access (Freemium) model. The organization serves five primary stakeholder groups: EPS (health insurance companies) for risk management and reporting compliance; IPS (healthcare providers) for benchmarking and clinical quality improvement; the Ministry of Health and regulatory bodies for policy formulation; academic and research institutions for epidemiological research; and patient associations for advocacy and awareness. Distribution is entirely domestic, with no disclosed international footprint, no revenue figures, no headcount, no funding rounds, no acquisitions, and no commercial partnerships.

Name

Cuenta de alto costo

Legal name

Cuenta de Alto Costo

Website

https://cuentadealtocosto.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Cuenta de Alto Costo is a Colombian nonprofit founded in 2007 that operates as the official national registry for high-cost diseases (cancer, HIV, chronic kidney disease, hemophilia, hepatitis C, rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension). It aggregates audited patient data from EPS and IPS via its SISCAC platform, publishes statistical results through HIGIA, and serves Colombia's Ministry of Health, healthcare providers, academia, and patient associations under a government-funded, free open-access model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Analytics & Disease Registries

NAICS

Health Care and Social Assistance (62), Information (51)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLAJAJAC

Health Statistics & Reporting (National/State/Local Indicators)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Public Health, Government & Regulators/Health Statistics, Vital Records & Population Health Analytics

SECONDARYHLAJANAM

Data Linkage, Registries & Longitudinal Cohort Surveillance

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Public Health, Government & Regulators/Health Program Evaluation & Surveillance

SECONDARYHLAJAJAK

Healthcare Utilization, Claims & Administrative Data Analytics

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Public Health, Government & Regulators/Health Statistics, Vital Records & Population Health Analytics

SECONDARYBPAIAJAM

Health Data, Vital Statistics & Population Health Informatics

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Public Health Administration & Regulation

Keywords

• High-cost disease tracking
• Health data registry
• Epidemiological statistics
• Clinical consensus indicators
• Public health analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Cundinamarca

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: As a Colombian government-affiliated entity under the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, CAC operates as a public interest organization funded through government budgetary allocations to fulfill its mandate of tracking and managing high-cost diseases in Colombia's health system.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Cuenta de Alto Costo operates a national information system and statistical registry for high-cost diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, chronic kidney disease, hemophilia, hepatitis C, HIV, hypertension, multiple sclerosis) in Colombia, mandated by the Ministry of Health. It collects, processes, audits, and disseminates epidemiological data reported by EPS (health insurers) and IPS (healthcare providers), generating consensus-based clinical quality indicators, annual situation reports, institutional rankings, and public-access dashboards.

Product overview

Cuenta de Alto Costo operates as a Colombian public health information organization that manages a unified ecosystem of digital platforms for tracking and analyzing high-cost diseases (enfermedades de alto costo). The core product portfolio consists of SISCAC (the primary information management system), HIGIA (public statistical results platform with Power BI dashboards), Portal de Conocimiento (knowledge repository with publications and consensus documents), Aulas Virtuales/Moodle (virtual learning), Comunidad de Buenas Prácticas (collaborative community), and Mesa de Ayuda (support desk). These interconnected platforms work together to collect, process, and disseminate health data on conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, chronic kidney disease, hemophilia, hepatitis C, HIV, multiple sclerosis, and hypertension across Colombia's health system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SISCAC: Health information system platform for tracking high-cost diseases
• HIGIA
• Portal de Conocimiento
• Comunidad de Buenas Prácticas
• PEI / Aulas Virtuales

Quantifiable outcome

• 6,703,467 cases of hypertension tracked nationally (period 2025)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Health Catalyst: US-based healthcare data and analytics company providing population health management, disease registries, and quality measurement platforms to health systems and payers. Comparable to CAC through disease registry and population health analytics capabilities, though operating commercially rather than as a public-mandated registry.
• IQVIA: Global health data science and analytics company providing real-world evidence, disease prevalence data, and epidemiological research to pharma, payers, and providers. Comparable to CAC through health data analytics capabilities and disease prevalence tracking, though operating commercially at global scale rather than as a national public registry.

Broad incumbents

• Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI): Canada's national health statistics agency that produces comparable data on health system performance, disease prevalence, and quality indicators. Highly comparable to CAC as a national-level health statistics organization producing standardized indicators for policy use, though operating in a more mature and broader Canadian health system context.
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): The WHO regional office for the Americas that produces health statistics, disease surveillance, and policy guidance across Latin America. Comparable to CAC as a regional health statistics authority with overlapping stakeholder ecosystem including ministries of health, though operating at a multinational rather than national scope.
• SEER (NCI Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results): The US National Cancer Institute's authoritative cancer registry program that tracks cancer incidence, survival, and treatment outcomes nationwide. Directly comparable to CAC's cancer surveillance component, representing the gold-standard cancer registry model that CAC's cancer tracking efforts parallel in a Colombian context.
• IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer): WHO's specialized cancer research agency that maintains global cancer registries and incidence databases. Comparable to CAC through its cancer registry expertise and global health statistics production, though focused exclusively on cancer while CAC covers multiple disease categories.

Regional players

• Robert Koch Institute (RKI): Germany's federal government agency for disease surveillance and public health, producing national health statistics and epidemiological reports. Comparable to CAC as a national-level public health statistics agency with disease surveillance mandate, though serving a larger and more decentralized German health system.
• NHS Digital (UK): The UK's national health information and statistics authority, producing official statistics on disease prevalence, hospital activity, and population health indicators. Comparable to CAC's national health statistics role within a publicly funded health system, though operating in a much larger and more data-mature context.

Direct peers

• Instituto Nacional de Salud (Colombia): Colombia's National Health Institute is a sister Colombian government entity focused on disease surveillance, epidemiological research, and public health laboratory work. Operates within the same SGSSS ecosystem as CAC and produces overlapping disease surveillance outputs, though INS focuses more on infectious disease outbreak response while CAC handles chronic high-cost diseases.
• Departamento de Estadísticas e Información de Salud (DEIS Chile): Chile's Ministry of Health statistics department producing national health statistics, mortality data, and health system performance indicators. Highly comparable to CAC as a Latin American national health statistics agency serving a similar public health system structure, though Chile's DEIS has a broader mortality and vital statistics scope.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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