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Integrated Medicaid and State Agency Mental Health and Substance Abuse Data Analysis and Technical Assistance

Project goals include offering focused technical support for states who wish to integrate Mental Health and Substance Abuse Agency data with Medicaid and other state data bases; promoting the use of integrated data through presentations at national conferences, participation in focused MH/SA workshops, and dissemination of tools and methods, such as data linking programs, and conducting policy-related research and analysis of the IDB data created under the original contract. Given the multiple settings in which Americans receive MH and SA treatments, data integration is vital for understanding patient usage patterns.
 
Presentations and Tools to help implement data integration projects
  • Integrated Data Base Record Linking
    Introduces record linking concepts, explores techniques that can be used in the absence of a reliable common identifier. Uses examples from SAMHSA's Integrated Database (IDB) project. Includes linking programs (in SAS).
     
  • PDF File download Conference Papers: Increasing Interoperability in Health Information Systems
    (508 compliant version) (352 KB)
     
  • The Future of Data (forthcoming)
    Policy-oriented report on the challenges facing researchers who seek a comprehensive view and understanding of publicly financed mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) services.
     
  • Data Sharing in the Age of HIPAA
    A framework for sharing data between administrative units. This framework building is a necessary but often overlooked stage in collaborating using integrated data. Includes example data sharing documents.
     
  • Medicaid Behavioral Health Data
    Details a process for identifying and extracting behavioral health claims from Medicaid data.
     
  • Quick-Start Reporting
    Describes key milestones and related reporting in the data integration process.
     
  • PDF File download Chronology Compilation Tool (CCT) for Analyzing Service Patterns
    (508 compliant version) (64 KB)
    Chronology Compilation Tool (CCT) is an analytic researchers, statisticians, and programmers encounter databases. CCT can be used to analyze discreet periods of time to better understand explains the analytic tool and gives examples the SAMHSA Integrated Database (IDB).
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

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