HCUP: Celebrating 20 Years of Powerful Data Herbert S. Wong, Ph.D. AHRQ Annual Meeting September 28, 2010
HCUP 20 th Anniversary! 2
Agenda Background Awards Presentations Questions
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
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
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
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
Outstanding Healthcare Research Jay G. Berry, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital Boston
Outstanding Healthcare Student Research Ya-Lin Aileen Huang, Ph.D. Emory University
Outstanding Healthcare Policy Research Carlos Grijalva, M.D., M.P.H. Vanderbilt University