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NACHC's informatics team provides technical assistance and analysis services to data partners. Technical assistance includes coaching data partners to improve the quality of their data collection and use. Analysis services include performing analysis on one or multiple datasets to assess a prescribed outcome or outcomes (e.g., the percent of women who received contraception counseling), calculate a predefined quality measure (e.g., the percent of screening-eligible patients who were screened). When combining datasets from multiple data partners, analysis also includes can include mapping and normalizing disparate data structures and formats into one common data model . and linking patients (see Linkage section).
Project Structure
NACHC organizes and tracks data-related work in projects. A project is established for each unique dataset that is housed by NACHC. When NACHC is performing many distinct analytic services on a given dataset, multiple projects may be established. Each project has a Confluence website which defines the project team, provides links to relevant project documentation and agreements, location of project data, and tracks project progress. Projects have regular status meetings. Minutes and meeting materials from status meetings are made available on Confluence. At the start of each project, a project team is identified and includes members of the the data contributor and NACHC staff and documented on the project Confluence page. Additionally, members of the project team who will have access to project data are identified at the project inception. As the project team evolves through the project lifecycle, the project team is updated on Confluence and in project-related documentation, as appropriate.
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