The
Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) has awarded Ann Arbor-based
Thomson Medstat a three-year contract worth $14.9 million.
With it Medstat will build and support the
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), a family of databases and related software comprising a national information resource of patient-level healthcare data.
The databases facilitate research on a wide range of health policy issues including: access to health care, cost and quality of health services and medical treatment outcomes at the national, state and local levels.
Thomson Medstat will also play a key supporting role in developing the N
ational Healthcare Quality Report and the
National Healthcare Disparities Report for Congress. These reports, last issued in December 2005, include a broad set of performance measures that document baselines and trends which shed light on the quality of healthcare in the United States and differences among vulnerable populations.
Medstat is part of
The Thomson Corp. Source: Thomson Medstat
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