Center for Health Information and Research
Expertise using various data
Center for Health Information and Research, or CHiR, data scientists offer decades of experience working with a large number of data sources*, including:
- Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance claims, encounter and member files
- hospital discharge data
- electronic health records data
- healthcare provider licensure files
- geospatial or regional characteristics
- criminal justice data
- homeless management information system data
- publicly available data and survey data
- other sources of individual and customized data
CHiR has established a variety of partnerships within the Arizona health community and serves as a business associate to numerous organizations. Most of our data sources are linkable, creating a huge repository of historical data from which analysts can glean key insights about the provision and quality of health care in Arizona.
* CHiR does not own the data contained in its repositories. The data is collected through individual data sharing agreements, which include HIPAA protections for the protected health information. Written approval must be obtained from the data custodian before accessing or disclosing for individual research projects or other studies
Data science and analytic capabilities
CHiR can produce customized detailed analysis of patient and community populations using any of the listed data above. Our capabilities include:
Research capabilities
We also offer expertise in study design and analysis using tools appropriate for large data sources, such as large-scale statistical analysis, machine learning, data visualizations and natural language processing.
Researchers, health care providers, payers, public health agencies, health policy leaders and other public or private organizations can benefit from collaborating with CHiR to:
Conduct high-impact health, medical, quality of care and other types of health services research
- Evaluate changes in health care policies on quality of care,disparities in care, access to care, costs of care and other outcomes
- Improve delivery and coordination of care
- Define cohorts and identify gaps in care
- Identify underserved areas
- Assess and report performance of interventions and initiatives