Linking state health care data to inform policymaking: opportunities and challenges
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, issuing body. RAND Health Care, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, June 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Data Collection -- methods Databases as Topic Health Policy Policy Making Routinely Collected Health Data State Government United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In this report, RAND researchers provide the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) with background information on All Payer Claims Databases (APCDs). This report is an update of work previously published for ASPE to support its role with the U.S. Department of Labor’s State All Payer Claims Databases Advisory Committee (SAPCDAC). The purpose of this document is to provide a primer on the history of the development and goals of APCDs, discuss the current data collection and data access procedures of APCDs, and discuss some of the most important challenges and limitations associated with operating an APCD or working with APCD data. This document builds on a project report provided to ASPE by RAND in 2021; some text therefore draws heavily on the previous report. However, this document is also intended to serve a wider variety of audiences than RAND’s 2021 report (which was focused more narrowly on informing the SAPCDAC). This report contains additional detail on the objectives of and use cases for APCDs, the current APCD landscape, and implementation challenges that constrain the use of APCDs for some valuable applications. Federal and state policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders who are interested in understanding the current APCD landscape might find this work useful. This report updates the June 2, 2021, report titled The History, Promise and Challenges of State All Payer Claims Databases: Background Memo for the State All Payer Claims Database Advisory Committee to the Department of Labor (Carman et al., 2021).
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (vi, vi, 93 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918574083706676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918574083706676