HealthIT Answers March 22, 2021
By Joel Cohen, PhD, Director of AHRQ’s Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends and David Meyers, MD, AHRQ’s Acting Director
The Biden-Harris Administration has made protecting and expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare one of its top priorities. This commitment will require policy decisions on critical issues ranging from expanding access to health insurance to lowering prescription drug prices to addressing persistent healthcare inequities. AHRQ’s rich healthcare data resources and data analytical capabilities can play a pivotal role in helping to address these and other complex challenges.
AHRQ is evolving and expanding our data platforms, including the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), to be more comprehensive, timely, and relevant. We are...