A group of researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Texas has received a three-year grant totaling $1.2 million to develop software to use information from Medicare billing records and other databases to compare the effectiveness of different treatments, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report.
The grant is part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act's goal of comparative effectiveness research, the report said.
In the short term, researchers look to publish an academic paper on the method of creating computer models to analyze the different statistical parameters of the different data. After the software is created, it is expected to be made available to the Medical College of Wisconsin and the National Institutes of Health.
In the long term, the software will help researchers at institutions nationwide build better models using the Medicare billing records data and other databases to determine what treatments and new technologies work best for patients.
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The grant is part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act's goal of comparative effectiveness research, the report said.
In the short term, researchers look to publish an academic paper on the method of creating computer models to analyze the different statistical parameters of the different data. After the software is created, it is expected to be made available to the Medical College of Wisconsin and the National Institutes of Health.
In the long term, the software will help researchers at institutions nationwide build better models using the Medicare billing records data and other databases to determine what treatments and new technologies work best for patients.
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