In the wake of a dynamic environment for federal data infrastructure, state health policy professionals face growing uncertainties around the availability, scope, and quality of critical health surveys.
To help state data users adapt to this changing federal data landscape, SHADAC’s State Solutions for Health Data Continuity project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, developed a series of Strategy Briefs. These briefs are designed to provide data users with alternatives for filling potential emerging data gaps. Informed by insights from 46 diverse data experts and stakeholders along with SHADAC’s years of expertise, each brief provides a high-level roadmap of an alternative data strategy, including its advantages, disadvantages, and implementation considerations.
The gap-filling strategies we describe in these briefs include the following:
- Investment in State Surveys
- Leveraging Electronic Health Record Data to Complement Data from Federal Surveys
- Leveraging Health Insurance Claims Data to Complement Data from Federal Surveys
Click any of the briefs’ cover pages below to read each in full.
Technical Assistance and State Health Data Workgroups
Are you interested in learning more about potential strategies for filling emerging federal data gaps? Do you need assistance in navigating data challenges?
As a part of our State Solutions for Health Data Continuity Project, the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) is offering individualized technical assistance to help data professionals with data needs and emerging challenges. Assistance is in our name—contact us here.
We are also working to organize and facilitate state health data workgroups to convene diverse data professionals, from data users to survey vendors to state analysts, to share learnings, discuss strategies, and create actionable plans for moving forward amongst federal data uncertainties. Learn more about this effort, along with other resources created for this project, here.