{"565591":{"#nid":"565591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Solving Health Care Policy with Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a nondescript room on Fifth Street, billions of files containing millions of Americans\u2019 personal health information are stored. The few gatekeepers allowed into this highly secured room are the members of Georgia Tech\u2019s Health Analytics team, a group of students and faculty members who use data science methodologies to analyze and interpret all of this information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo what\u2019s in the files? The Health Analytics group has, over time, bought 500 billion Medicaid claims from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency. The claims date back nearly 10 years, from 2007-2012. For two of those years, Tech has all of the claims filed in the entire United States; for the rest of the period, the claims of 14 states located mostly in the Southeast.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe claims allow the team to study how people use the health care system: how many times they went to the doctor, if and when they filled a prescription, if they went to the specialist they were referred to, or how many times they\u2019ve been to the emergency room or otherwise hospitalized. The data also includes what costs were associated with each doctor, specialist, or hospital visit, and what drives those costs \u2014 so they can study how to increase cost efficiency on a systemic level.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead more about the ISyE Health Analytics group\u0027s work here: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2ba2VBT\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2ba2VBT\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe ISyE Health Analytics team is analyzing\u0026nbsp;500 billion Medicaid claims that are right at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Health Analytics team is analyzing 500 billion Medicaid claims that are right at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2016-08-19 16:04:21","changed_gmt":"2016-08-22 17:00:00","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}