Mission
To improve the performance and efficiency of health systems through a systematic analysis of health data related to human, technological, and social factors affecting health outcomes.
Objectives
- Provide advanced analytics capacity to inform evidence-based decision making in clinical settings, public health, health policy, and health systems
- Provide opportunities for experts from different disciplines (academic, policy and clinical researchers) to work collaboratively on issues related to health data analysis and its implications
- Provide professional development and training opportunities for junior researchers and students at Tulane University and other educational institutions
- Develop community partnerships to advance translational research using data from health care organizations, information exchanges, insurance claims, health services operations, and other sources to support improvements in population health
Structure
As a partnership of LPHI and the Department of Global Health Systems and Development at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, both organizations will pursue opportunities for translational, practice, and policy-relevant research to sustain HSARC’s strategic operations in a manner consistent with the mission of both institutions.
Services
- Conduct health analytics projects that use big data from clinical, administrative, or financial data
- Generate reports based on customer needs
- Develop partnerships with community-based, academic, and professional entitities
- Engage professional networks for dissemination and knowledge translation of health analytics data into health policy and practice improvement
- Provide business analytics and optimization services
- Perform data integration services using data from disparate sources
- Use advanced data techniques like data mining, predictive modeling, regression analysis, propensity score matching, and simulation models to discover insights into the data that may impact practice and quality of care
IT Capacity
- Enterprise Cloud powered by VMware/200TB Storage
- Data capture tools
- Research Analytics
- Secure Datacenter (Monitored Access, Environmental, Backup Power)
- HIPPA AND FISMA Compliant
- Offsite Disaster Recovery Site
- HPC Computing
- Private 10 Node Cluster
- Private HADOOP Cluster
- Access to Louisiana Optical Network Initiative Resource (Tulane University Host LOUIE)