Issue Brief Summary

Must Data Be So Deadly: How Should Information Inform Health Policy Decision-Making?
September 10, 1997

Raises questions regarding the role of state government -- in the environment of deregulation -- among other health care stakeholders in the arena of health information. How can a "best practices" model for health information systems, i.e., one which produces usable, reliable and appropriation information to guide the policy-making process, be developed in New Jersey? Offers a review of national data initiatives, and individual state initiatives (including Minnesota, Washington, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, California, New York and Pennsylvania). Includes an Appendix summarizing national data initiatives, national performance and outcomes measurement initiatives, and national health information and policy initiatives, such as the Registry of State Data Integration Efforts established by the federal Department of Health and Human Services, and the Information for State Health Policy (InfoSHP) project, a national grant program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. [12pp.]


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