Health Care – Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy

AISP Q&A with Martin Love, CEO of North Coast Health Improvement and Information Network (NCHIIN)

Administrative Data, IDS, IDS Uses, Resourceful Partners & Organizations, Social Impact / Tian McPherson

Questions for Martin Love, CEO of North Coast Health Improvement and Information Network (NCHIIN), a not-for-profit health information exchange partnered w/the Humboldt County DHHS-SS and Humboldt Housing and Homeless Coalition working to reduce emergency department utilization by a utilizer population. Background on North Coast Health Improvement and Information Network (NCHIIN): NCHIIN is a California non-profit […]

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Camden Coalition: Sharing data across sectors for better complex care

Administrative Data, AISP Network, Developing Sites, IDS, IDS Uses, Resourceful Partners & Organizations, Social Policy Innovation / Tian McPherson

Camden Coalition: As we launch our national center, we are working to convene experts in complex care— caring for patients with complex health and social needs— across the country, and to elevate cross-sector collaborations that already exist. One national collaboration that we are a part of is All In: Data for Community Health (All In),

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CMS Releases Medicare Data for Quality-Based Metrics

Administrative Data, Evidence-based services, IDS, IDS Uses, Research, Social Impact / Tian McPherson

CMS has released new data on ethnic and racial backgrounds of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, which will allow for analysis related to quality-based metrics within various populations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is further attempting to innovate and improve medicine through quality-based metrics, as the CMS Office of Minority Health has released new

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J-PAL North America launches health care delivery innovation competition

Administrative Data, Developing Sites, IDS, IDS Uses, Resourceful Partners & Organizations, Social Impact / Tian McPherson

MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America has launched a new Health Care Delivery Innovation Competition that will support U.S. federal, state, and local health agencies and other health care organizations in developing compelling and reliable evidence of the impact of innovative programs. The J-PAL Health Care Delivery Innovation Competition will support visionary health

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Fusing Randomized Trials With Big Data – The Key to Self-learning Health Care Systems?

Research / Tian McPherson

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have revolutionized medicine by providing evidence on the efficacy and safety of drugs, devices, and procedures. Today, more than 40 000 RCTs are reported annually, their quality continues to increase, and oversight mechanisms ensure adequate protection of participants. However, RCTs have at least 4 related problems: (1) they are too expensive and

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Camden ARISE studies dual-system high-utilization

Administrative Data, Developing Sites, IDS Uses, Resourceful Partners & Organizations / Tian McPherson

In a recent visit to Camden, President Barack Obama praised the Camden County Police Department for its success in community policing and highlighted the opportunity to use data to explore patterns, improve services, and tackle tough-to-solve problems. Through Camden ARISE (Administrative Records Integrated for Service Excellence), the Coalition is partnering with the city’s police to

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Camden, NJ Project Seeks Better Health and Safety Through Data-Sharing

Administrative Data, AISP Network, Developing Sites, IDS Uses / Tian McPherson

For close to a decade, a group of Camden health-care providers has used a database of information culled from the city’s three hospitals to evaluate medical costs, identify hot spots in neighborhoods, and develop outreach programs. Soon, the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers will also be able to look at data from the criminal justice

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Open Movement in NY Exemplifies Data Uses

Administrative Data, Government Agencies, IDS, IDS Uses, Social Impact / Tian McPherson

The Journal of the American Medical Association recently featured an article detailing open data in the State of New York. The article, “Liberating Data to Transform Health Care: New York’s Open Data Experience,” describes an open data revolution promoting data that’s publicly accessible, available in multiple formats, and free of charge, with unlimited use and

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IDS Has Potential to Improve Public School Rating System

AISP Network, Evidence-based Policy, IDS, IDS Uses / Tian McPherson

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) published an article that emphasized integrated data systems (IDS) as a worthwhile tool that can be used to better rate public schools. NYC schools are often labeled as successes or failures. Research indicates this rating is inadequate because academic performances are compared only to other schools with similar demographics.

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DSHS Services Mitigates Likelihood of Postsecondary Education for High School Graduates

Administrative Data, AISP Network, IDS / Tian McPherson

The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), with collaboration from the Research and Data Analysis Division (RDA), has published a study describing higher education enrollment patterns among youth recipients of health and social services. The report utilizes data in the year following the 2008-09 Washington State public high school graduation. The study

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NY Times Highlights the Importance of Electronic Health Records for Health Data

Administrative Data, Evidence-based Policy, IDS Uses / Tian McPherson

The NY Times notes that, though the main goal of implementing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is to reduce costs and improve efficiency, EHRs actually have the potential to make a greater impact in the field of medical research because of the rich data they contain. For further information: NY Times Article

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