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Webinar
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP): Powerful data, Meaningful Answers

Thursday, May 25, 2006
12:30 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Duration
2.5 Hour Presentation with Comment/Question and Answer Periods

Audience
This presentation is geared towards health services researchers with an interest in using healthcare administrative data in their research pursuits. The majority of this presentation will be at a basic/intermediate level. There are no prerequisites.

Cost
AMIA Members: $75
Non-members: $150

Presented By
Claudia Steiner, MD, MPH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, USA
Carol Stocks, RN, MHSA, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, USA

Competencies and Topics Covered
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and AMIA's Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Work Group are pleased to provide AMIA members with an opportunity to learn about how the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) can support their research interests. Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HCUP captures information on 90 percent of all hospital stays in the U.S, and is the largest collection of longitudinal, all-payer, encounter-level data available to researchers. It is a family of databases, software tools, and products that enable health services research and policy analysis focusing on hospital, ambulatory surgery, and emergency department encounters.

HCUP data supports cutting-edge health services research and policy analyses. To date, HCUP data has been used in nearly 400 research articles published in prestigious journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Economics, and Health Services Research. HCUP data also supports Congressionally mandated reports, such as the National Healthcare Disparities Report and the National Healthcare Quality Report. The possible applications are extremely diverse.

This seminar will provide an introduction to HCUP data and will introduce participants to several HCUP software tools, including HCUPnet, the free, online query system that provides instant access to HCUP data.

Upon completion of this web seminar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the available HCUP databases, tools and products.
  
• Determine how HCUP can support their health services and policy research interests.
  
• Extract descriptive health care statistics from HCUPnet, a free on-line querying tool.
  
• Identify how to access the wide range of HCUP resources and documentation available to researchers.
  

Logistics
This Electronic Learning Event will be delivered via Web-Ex, an on-line conferencing tool that can be accessed from remote locations. The presentation will be didactic in nature with several opportunities for interaction with presenters through comment/Q&A periods.

Minimum system requirements for installing Meeting Manager (WebEx) for Windows:

• Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME (Millennium Edition), XP, NT, or 2000
  
• Intel Pentium 166 MHz or faster processor*
  
• 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended)
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x or later, Netscape Communicator 4.x, 6.x, or AOL 5.0 or later
  
• JavaScript and cookies enabled on the Web browser
  
• 56K or faster Internet connection
  

For first time use of WebEx, allow roughly ten minutes for the software download.

Schedule
Thursday, May 25, 2006
12:30 PM to 3:00 PM E.S.T.
Presentation with Comment/Question and Answer Periods

• HCUP Overview
  
• Description of State-Level HCUP Databases
  
1. State Inpatient Databases (SID)
   
2. State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD)
   
3. State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD)
   
• Description of National Derivative Databases
  
1. Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS)
   
2. Kids' Inpatient Database (KID)
   
• Discussion of HCUP Tools & Products
  
1. Software Tools (Clinical Classifications Software (CCS), Procedure Classes, Cost-to-Charge Ratios, Chronic/Non-Chronic Indicators, Comorbidity Software)
   
2. Research Products (Fact Books, Statistical Briefs, Methods Series)
   
• Demonstration of HCUPnet
  
• Applied Example of HCUP Research
  
1. Use of HCUP Data to Support Obesity Research
   

About AMIA
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is an organization of leaders shaping the future of biomedical and health informatics in the United States and abroad. AMIA is dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration. AMIA links developers and users of health information technology, creating an environment which fosters advances that revolutionize health care. Membership is open to individuals, institutions, and corporations.