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January 15, 2009 AcademyHealth Comments on AHRQ's Data Inventory On December 31, 2008, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published a notice in the Federal Register requesting information from the public on the availability of regularly collected administrative and other data specific to outpatient health service utilization. AHRQ seeks to better understand issues in developing data collection initiatives, uses of available data, gaps in available information, similarities across data projects, and areas for possible collaboration and coordination. AHRQ’s initial focus is on those data sets that would inform health care providers, policymakers, and consumers about outpatient health service utilization. Given the importance of data access and transparency for research, AcademyHealth offered official comments for AHRQ’s consideration on behalf of our members, the research community, and the public more broadly, noting that regularly collected administrative and other data about outpatient health services utilization is a valuable resource for research, policy, and practice. AcademyHealth recommended specifically that AHRQ expand its analysis of current data collection activities to determine the extent to which administrative data writ large are currently available to the research community, and if not, whether the data could be made available. ________________________________________ |
