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
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| 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 ResearchRonald C. Prevost, Special Assistant, Demographic Surveys DivisionGerald Gates, Chief Privacy Officer
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, NORCPresentation 1 Presentation 2 |
| 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 LinkageDavid Gibson, CMS Steven Cohen, Director of the Center for Financing Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare, Research and Quality Martin L. Brown, Chief, Health Services and Economics Branch, National Cancer Institute 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 |
| 4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Wrap up and Adjourn |
Tuesday, September 19th
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| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | IRS, Education and Veterans Administration | Tom Petska, Director, Statistics of Income Division, IRSRichard Bjorklund, Director, Veterans AdministrationChris Chapman, Program Director for Early Childhood and Household Studies, National Center for Education Statistics
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 AcademiesHeather Boushey, Economist, Center for Economic and Policy ResearchBrian Harris-Kojetin, OMB
Deb Schrag, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 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 Michael Davern, Assistant Professor, University of MinnesotaDonald 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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