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Understanding the Costs and Benefits of Health

Understanding the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology in Nursing Homes and Home Health Agencies: Case Study Findings

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Literature Review and Synthesis: Existing Surveys

Literature Review and Synthesis: Existing Surveys on Health Information Technology, including Surveys on Health Information Technology in Nursing Homes and Home Health

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Taxonomy of Health Information Technology

Taxonomy of Health Information Technology Functions in Nursing Homes and Home Health Agencies - Report A: Review by Representatives from Standards Development Organizations

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Taxonomy of Health Information Technology in Nursing Homes and Home Health Agencies -- Report A: Review by Representatives from Standards Development Organizations University of Colorado, DenverHealth Sciences Center August 3, 2007 PDF Version (40 PDF pages)
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Meeting the Challenge of Serving People With

Meeting the Challenge of Serving People With Disabilities: A Resource Guide for Assessing the Performance of Managed Care Organizations

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Appendix D - Data Challenges and Responses

HHS Strategic Goals and Objectives - FY 2001 . Appendix D - Data Challenges and Responses

OVERVIEW
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Objective 5.1 - Improve the Capacity of the

HHS Strategic Goals and Objectives - FY 2001 . Objective 5.1 - Improve the Capacity of the Public Health System to Identify and Respond to Threats to the Health of the Nation's Population

How We Will Accomplish Our Objective We will upgrade the surveillance, risk assessment, and response capacity of the public health system. Our priorities will focus on investments in infrastructure to improve responses to specific priority needs. These include:
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Laboratory Information Systems

Public Health Laboratories and Health System Change . Laboratory Information Systems

Improvements in Laboratory Information Systems (LISs) are also transforming the laboratory services environment. In the private sector, large laboratory companies are making significant investments in the development of information resources in hopes of streamlining the core testing business and entering the healthcare data analysis arena. Develop
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Utilization Monitoring and Reporting

Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. Utilization Monitoring and Reporting

When Congress created the permanent housing set-aside within HUD’s McKiney-Vento programs in 2000, it also directed the Department of Housing and Urban Development to require that grantees implement homelessness services management information systems, or HMIS. Congress asked that HUD fund implementation of such systems so that jurisdictions cou
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Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007

Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.

The authors summarize the progress made in the past decade toward making homeless assistance programs more accountable to funders, consumers, and the public. They observe that research on the costs of homelessness and cost offsets associated with intervention programs has been limited to people who are homeless with severe mental illness. But this
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

PUBLIC LAW 104-191 104th Congress An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to
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Data collection problems

The Feasibility of Using Electronic Health Data for Research on Small Populations. Data collection problems

Even if members of small populations are included in the sample, challenges remain in collecting information through a survey questionnaire. These challenges include: Unit Nonresponse
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HHS Implementation Guidance on Data Collection

HHS Implementation Guidance on Data Collection Standards for Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Primary Language, and Disability Status

This policy guidance provides information on the final set of data standards for race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status as required by Section 4302 of the Affordable Care Act. Supporting guidance on implementation of the standards is provided for inclusion on all population health surveys, to the extent practicable, conduct
From: HHS Implementation Guidance on Data Collection Standards for Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Primary Language, and Disability Status
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HHS Implementation Guidance on Data Collection

HHS Implementation Guidance on Data Collection Standards for Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Primary Language, and Disability Status

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Implementation Guidance on Data Collection Standards for Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Primary Language, and Disability Status October 2011 This guidance is available on the Internet at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/datacncl/standards/ACA/4302
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Case Studies of Electronic Health Records in Post

Case Studies of Electronic Health Records in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Case Studies of Electronic Health Records in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Andrew Kramer, MD, Rachael Bennett, MA, Ronald Fish, MBA, C.T. Lin, MD, Natasha Floersch, BA, Karin Conway, RN, MBA, Eric Coleman, MD, MPHUniversity of Colorado Health Sciences Center Jennie Harvell, MEdU.S. Department of
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6.1.1 Improving Data Collection Techniques

Understanding Disparities in Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Research Approaches and Datasets. 6.1.1 Improving Data Collection Techniques

Section 4302 of the Affordable Care Act mandated the creation of uniform data collection standards for use in the federal population health surveys which utilize self-reported data, such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The final standards, which were published on Oct
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I. Successes and Challenges

Strategies for Integrating and Coordinating Care for Behavioral Health Populations: Case Studies of Four States. I. Successes and Challenges

Successes . A Blueprint staff member we spoke with for this study highlighted several major successes or advantages to Blueprint's approach:
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Strategies for Integrating and Coordinating Care

Strategies for Integrating and Coordinating Care for Behavioral Health Populations: Case Studies of Four States

This report describes the different strategies that four states--Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee and Vermont--are utilizing to improve the integration and coordination of care for individuals with mental health and substance use disorders. These strategies include introducing new managed care arrangements and care coordination mechanisms, enh
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D. Integration of HMIS, HOPWA, and CAREWare Data

Analysis of Integrated HIV Housing and Care Services. D. Integration of HMIS, HOPWA, and CAREWare Data Systems

The IHHP notice included several data collection and reporting requirements for the grantees. In addition to providing program-level HOPWA Annual Performance Reports each year, grantees are required to use HUD’s CoC HMIS or an “equivalent client-level information system” to support the planning and reporting activities of their projects.
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3. Open Data Policy—Managing Information as an

Minimizing Disclosure Risk in HHS Open Data Initiatives. 3. Open Data Policy—Managing Information as an Asset

Memorandum M-13-13, issued by OMB in conjunction with the Executive Order, and also directed to the heads of executive departments and agencies, establishes a framework to support effective information management strategies that will promote open data. An attachment to the memorandum includes four sections: a list of legal definitions relevant to
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3. Open Data Policy—Managing Information as an

Minimizing Disclosure Risk in HHS Open Data Initiatives. 3. Open Data Policy—Managing Information as an Asset

Memorandum M-13-13 was issued by OMB in conjunction with the Executive Order, establishes a framework to support effective information management strategies that will promote open data. Agencies are directed to adopt the following policies: use machine-readable and open formats; use data standards; remove all restrictions on distribution of public

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