Health Services Analysis Team
The Health Services Analysis Team (HSAT) is located within the Statistical Services Unit of the State Center for Health Statistics. Statisticians in the HSAT work in partnership with North Carolina health agencies to provide program managers with timely statistical information that will be used to inform decisions about the health management of populations, cost effectiveness of programs, quality of care, and cost management and accountability. The goal is to improve health programs in North Carolina, resulting in better health for our citizens.
One important use of health services data is to identify emerging morbidity and mortality patterns. Often, this process is facilitated by combining a program's health service data with birth, death, or other health records, to get a broader understanding of the health status of North Carolina populations. The HSAT also provides researchers in other agencies and university settings with assistance in research design and with data files for public health evaluation and research projects.
Clients We Regularly Serve Include:
- Many agencies of the Division of Public Health
- North Carolina Supplemental Food and Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
- Division of Medical Assistance
- North Carolina's Community Care Program: Carolina Access and Access II and III
- Children's Environmental Health Branch, Division of Environmental Health
- Local Health Departments of North Carolina
- School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Cecil B. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation
- Wake Forest School of Medicine
- Citizens of North Carolina
Areas of Work Include:
- Quality assurance for health care programs
- Assessment of cost-effectiveness of health programs
- Inter-agency health database development
- Data support for medical record audits
- Demographic profiling of health program populations
- Medicaid systems of care evaluations and comparisons
- Description of and analysis of hospitalization patterns in North Carolina
- Annual reports & special requests generated from North Carolina Medical Examiner's data
- Annual child fatality reports
Health Services Analysis Team Mission Statement:
Our mission is to provide our customers with demographic, health care cost, health care utilization, and other data needed to make informed decisions about population health and health program management. The goal is to improve health programs in North Carolina, resulting in better health for our citizens.