Upcoming Events

Jun 14 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Comparing Providers and Provider Teams <Link to more info and seminar materials> Darren DeWalt, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor
Jul 19 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Comparing Health Care Systems and Facilities <Link to more info and seminar materials> Mark Holmes, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Policy & Management --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor
Aug 23 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Comparing Health Care Facilities <Link to more info and seminar materials> Alan Brookhart, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor
Sep 13 8-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Alternatives to the Conventional RCT Michael Kosorok, Ph.D., Professor & Chairman, Department of Biostatistics Peter Thall, Ph.D., Professor, Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Location: Carolina Club, Alumni Hall I (Breakfast will be provided)
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Sept 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Speaker and time to be announced --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor
October 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Speaker and time to be announced --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor

What's New?

The NC Health Profession Data System has released a report entitled, "Trends in Graduate Medical Education in North Carolina: Challenges and Next Steps." [report]
Sandra Greene has been reappointed to the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council. For more information, click here.
The NC Health Professions Data System has released the 2011 health professions data. [Data book] [Data]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released a report entitled, "Trends in Medical Education in North Carolina." [report]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released a report entitled, "The Diversity of North Carolina's Health Care Workforce" and presented the findings at the North Carolina Health Professions Diversity Conference on August 29, 2012. [report] [slides]
A year-end report on the project to develop an online, dynamic model for projecting physician supply and demand has been completed by a Sheps team led by Erin Fraher. [report]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released the Fall 2011 Allied Health Job Vacancy Tracking Report. [report]
The American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute has released an update to their online, interactive atlas of the surgical workforce in the US. This updated version includes data on surgical sub-specialties, population data, and health access indicators. [Atlas]

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Sheps Center Data Sources

CCQI - Carolina Cost and Quality Initiative

A collaborative partnership between UNC’s School of Public Health and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research to build, maintain and oversee the use of data on health care services provided to North Carolina residents, and to promote the use of these data for research. Data from public and private payers populate the patient specific database. Periodic updates from the payers keep the research database current and relevant.

MarketScan^®Commercial Claims and Encounters and Medicare Supplemental Databases

The MarketScan^®Commercial Claims and Encounters and Medicare Supplemental Databases from Truven Health Analytics contains de-identified, person-specific health data including clinical utilization, expenditures, insurance enrollment/plan benefit, inpatient, outpatient, and outpatient prescription information. The data cover over twenty million individuals annually, and include private sector health data from approximately 100 payers, and can be linked to track detailed patient information across sites, types of providers, and over time.

North Carolina Health Professions Data System

Collects and disseminates timely and reliable data on selected licensed health professionals in North Carolina. The data includes contact, educational and practice information.

NC Discharge Data: Short Term Acute Care Hospital (Inpatient), Ambulatory Surgery, and Emergency Room

The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research is under contract with the Division of Health Services regulation to maintain, for use in research and state health planning, the NC hospital discharge data and NC ambulatory surgery data collected by Truven Health Analytics. Data from UB-92, and now UB-04, claims forms populate these databases. Yearly updates from Truven Health Analytics keep the research database current.

North Carolina Rural Health Research Program Cartographic Archive

For rural parts of North Carolina and the United States, provides maps of demographics, health status indicators, health care providers and health related services.

RNDMU — Region IV Network for Data Management and Utilization

Focuses on women and infant indicators for planning and assessment.

Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research