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Final Agenda

NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

Subcommittee on Populations

September 18 - 19, 2006

Renaissance Hotel
999 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: (202) 898-9000

Workshop on Data Linkages to Improve Health Outcomes

Goal: Stimulate interest and identify best practices in using linkages among administrative and survey data to improve our knowledge of health outcomes for the population and various subpopulations and assist HHS agencies to better meet their responsibilities for performance measurement under various laws such as the Government Performance Results Act of 1993.

Meeting Summary

 

Monday, September 18th

Transcript

 

 9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.

Call to Order - Welcome and Introductions

Donald Steinwachs, Ph.D., Chair

9:10 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.

The Importance of Data Linkage

Donald Steinwachs
C. Eugene Steuerle
Nancy Breen
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Census Bureau

Sally Obenski, Assistant Chief for Administrative Records Research Acrobat Logo

Ronald C. Prevost, Special Assistant, Demographic Surveys DivisionAcrobat Logo

Gerald Gates, Chief Privacy Officer Acrobat Logo

Nancy Breen, Facilitator

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Break

 

10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Census Bureau (continued)

 

11:45 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

 

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Using Linked Micro-data Julia Lane, Senior Vice President, NORC

Presentation 1 Acrobat Logo
Presentation 2 Acrobat Logo

1:00 p.m. -

Health and Human Services Agencies

Jennifer Madans, Associate Director for Science, National Center for Health Statistics
Christine Cox, NCHS Special Assistant for Record Linkage Acrobat Logo

David Gibson, CMS Acrobat Logo

Steven Cohen, Director of the Center for Financing Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare, Research and Quality Acrobat Logo

Martin L. Brown, Chief, Health Services and Economics Branch, National Cancer Institute
Gerald Riley, Social Science Research Analyst, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acrobat Logo

John Drabek, Economist, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS

C. Eugene Steuerle, Facilitator

2:30 p.m.- 2:45 p.m. Break  
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Health and Human Services Agencies (continued)  
4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Social Security Administration Howard Iams, Research Advisor Acrobat Logo
4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Wrap up and Adjourn

 

 

Tuesday, September 19th

Transcript

 
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

IRS, Education and Veterans Administration

Tom Petska, Director, Statistics of Income Division, IRS Acrobat Logo

Richard Bjorklund, Director, Veterans Administration Acrobat Logo

Chris Chapman, Program Director for Early Childhood and Household Studies, National Center for Education Statistics Acrobat Logo

A. Russell Localio, Facilitator

10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Break  

10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Maximizing the Benefits from Linked Data: Access for Research and Related Issues

Constance F. Citro, Director, Committee on National Statistics, The National Academies

Heather Boushey, Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Acrobat Logo

Deb Schrag, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Acrobat Logo

Joan Turek, Facilitator

12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

A Broader Perspective on the Role of Linkages

Fritz Scheuren, Vice President for Statistics, NORC and 2005 President of ASA Acrobat Logo

Michael Davern, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Acrobat Logo

Donald Steinwachs, Facilitator

2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Wrap-up

Subcommittee on Populations

3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

August 29, 2006

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