Providing data for RWJF's Health Data for Action research program -- Health Care Cost Institute

Public and Community Health. The Foundation's Health Data for Action initiative is a program aimed at identifying actionable insights from hard-to-access health data to build the evidence base for a Culture of Health.This grant funds participation by the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) as a data provider in RWJF's Health Data for Action (HD4A) program. Due to the coronavirus, the call for proposals (CFP) has been postponed until September, and the HD4A program will focus on COVID-19 surveillance in the meantime. HCCI will work with other HD4A data providers and others to create a COVID-19, public-use file and research dataset. HCCI will also contribute to development of the HD4A CFP; provide a written description of its data and an accompanying data dictionary; participate in a webinar for applicants; respond to applicants' questions; participate in proposal reviews; and make its data available to successful applicants. HCCI will also work with CareJourney to help make Medicaid T-MSIS (Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System) data available for use by successful HD4A applicants by creating a code and documentation repository to allow collaboration among researchers.