The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act created the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) in 1990. The RWHAP helps low-income people living with HIV (PLWH) by providing medical care, medications, and support services. More than half of all people diagnosed with HIV receive services through the RWHAP each year.
Evaluation
Evaluation and analysis provide essential evidence for HHS to understand how its programs work, for whom, and under what circumstances. HHS builds evidence through evaluation and analysis in order to inform decisions in budget, legislative, regulatory, strategic planning, program, and policy arenas. Given the breadth of work supported by HHS, many evaluations and analyses are conducted each year. These efforts range in scope, scale, design, and methodology, but all aim to understand how the effect of programs and policies and how they can be improved.
Across HHS, evaluation comes in many forms, including:
- Program evaluations using the most rigorous designs appropriate;
- Capacity-building initiatives to improve administrative data collection, accessibility, and use for management;
- Exploratory and preliminary quantitative and qualitative analysis to build evidence;
- Pilots and demonstrations; and
- Statistical analysis of factors related to health and human services programs and policies.
ASPE coordinates the evaluation community by regularly convening the HHS Evaluation & Evidence Policy Council, which builds capacity by sharing best practices and promising new approaches across HHS.
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Framework for a Public Repository of Artificial Intelligence Training Datasets Using EHR Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research & A Pediatric ADHD Patient-Centered Outcomes Annotation Schema
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, particularly those that use natural language processing (NLP), are becoming increasingly prominent in healthcare delivery. For these systems to operate safely and reliably in clinical settings, they require high-quality training datasets drawn from multiple sources, including electronic health record (EHR) data, that closely reflect real-world conditions.
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Harnessing the Value of Electronic Health Record Data for Research
The United States (U.S.) faces urgent health challenges, including poor maternal and childhood health outcomes, childhood obesity, opioid use disorder, cancer, and chronic conditions, which require personalized care tailored to each patient’s unique circumstances.
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Building infrastructure and evidence for COVID-19 related research, using integrated data from NCHS Data Linkage Program
The overall goal of the project is to expand the utility of National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) linked data resources to support patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) through the development of publicly available synthetic linked data files.
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Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors, Twenty-Fifth Report to Congress
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-432) requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare an annual report to Congress on indicators and predictors of “welfare dependence.” That Act requires the report to include three programs: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program (which replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
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Creating Effective Medicaid Data Linkages for Health Outcomes Research
Patients, clinicians, decision makers, and other stakeholders depend on robust, evidence-based information to make informed health care decisions. Linking Medicaid data to other sources enables a deeper understanding of how Medicaid services and interventions influence health outcomes.