HCUP: Celebrating 20 Years of Powerful Data (Text Version)

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HCUP: Celebrating 20 Years of Powerful Data

Herbert S. Wong, Ph.D.

AHRQ Annual Meeting
September 28, 2010

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HCUP 20th Anniversary!

Image: The HCUP logo is shown.

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Agenda

• Background
• Awards
• Presentations
• Questions

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What is HCUP?

• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
• Voluntary federal-state-industry partnership
• Largest set of publicly-available all-payer healthcare data in the U.S.
  • Inpatient
  • Ambulatory surgery
  • Emergency department
• More than data
  • Software tools and products
• Designed to:
  • Promote healthcare research
  • Assist in policy analysis
  • Inform health care reform

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The Celebration

• Release of the 2007 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), 20 Years of Data.
• Grown from 8 State Partners to 43 State Partners.
• Expanded from data in inpatient setting to ambulatory surgery and emergency department.
• Tools and software.
• 16,000 databases distributed.
• 1,200 peer reviewed articles.

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The Celebration

• Outstanding Healthcare Research Using HCUP Data Award
  • Recognize researchers' contributions to the field of healthcare research and policy analysis using HCUP resources.
• Categories:
  • Healthcare Research
  • Healthcare Student Research
  • Healthcare Policy Research

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Awards Committee

• Anne Elixhauser, Ph.D., AHRQ
• Michael Hagan, B.A., AHRQ
• Kendall Hall, M.D., AHRQ
• Ernie Moy, M.D., M.P.H., AHRQ
• Pam Owens, Ph.D., Washington University
• Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Herbert Wong, Ph.D., AHRQ

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Outstanding Healthcare Research

Image: A photo of Jay G. Berry, M.D., M.P.H., is shown.

Jay G. Berry, M.D., M.P.H.,
Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston

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Outstanding Healthcare Student Research

Image: A photo of Ya-Lin Aileen Huang, Ph.D., is shown.

Ya-Lin Aileen Huang, Ph.D.
Emory University

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Outstanding Healthcare Policy Research

Image: A photo of Carlos Grijalva, M.D., M.P.H., is shown.

Carlos Grijalva, M.D., M.P.H.
Vanderbilt University