The Department of Health and Human Services has joined a research collaborative that will allow HHS agencies to use large data sets for healthcare research.
The Agency for Healthcare and Research and Quality will launch the first project through the partnership with OptumLabs to compare its own data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey with OptumLabs’ information from health claims records. The agency hopes to use that information to improve the data of its own survey data on health costs.
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