Fearless Collaboration

The nation’s immunized population can now be characterized by location, vaccination type, age, and race. Nationwide immunization visibility provides the grantee, vaccine manufacturer, trade name, date of production, lot number, valid vaccination dose, and provider, as well as the county, state, ZIP code, date of birth, sex, and race of the recipient (or refuser). 

• Consolidated state and immunization jurisdiction datasets to provide the CDC with nationwide coverage analysis 
• Developed a consistent and efficient workflow offering insight into efficacy of program funding distribution
• Automated data import, de-duplication, and normalization to conserve CDC resources for reallocation to high-level initiatives 

Our team created a fast, high-quality mechanism for data sharing across the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH). The solution facilitated an assessment of state capacity to treat narcotic dependance by analyzing the number of eligible providers, the prevalence of individuals with substance use disorders and whether these individuals are receiving treatment, and factors influencing their paths. 

• Created a multi-agency workgroup focused on opioid-related data analysis 
• Enabled multiple agencies to quickly share data 
• Facilitated analysis in a collaborative environment that led to new insights 

Enabling HHS to easily share data across agencies and securely collaborate on analysis through CoRE brought a range of benefits. 

• Increased data asset comprehension and management for data owners 
• Provided the ability to monitor user behavior and use of the environment 
• Enabled researchers to easily discover relevant datasets from multiple sources 
• Facilitated collaborative analysis by disparate researchers 
• Streamlined and sped up execution of data-share agreements to facilitate data access 
• Provided a scalable, cloud-based environment for optimal computing power and minimal cloud-hosting fees 
• Ensured data analysis is conducted in a secure, locked-down environment 

Indiana’s Management Performance Hub deployed CoRE on March 19, 2020, only 14 days after Indiana confirmed its first case of COVID-19. The solution would prove crucial to the State of Indiana’s COVID-19 response for the same reasons it would revolutionize sensitive data-sharing and analysis for the State of Indiana: It unlocked speedy and secure collaboration while facilitating complex modeling and machine learning. 

• Provided complete transparency surrounding the analysis and use of sensitive data, including administrative oversight and approval of any exports from the environment 
• Prevented unauthorized access to data by segregating an individual’s access to specific projects within the environment 
• Facilitated joint data analysis from multiple sources by diverse analysts in a secure manner 
• Accelerated advanced analysis through best-in-class data science and analytical tools 
• Provided the ability to share analysis and code securely 
• Enabled almost infinite scalability of number of users and data volume by dynamically adjusting capacities to meet computational needs in near real time