Welcome
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Understanding and addressing the rising cost of health care
Health care costs are rising, placing an increased financial burden on businesses, individuals, and families. Reimbursement policy changes are making health care delivery more challenging and complex. Reliable information is required to make informed decisions regarding how to operate in this shifting environment.
Data Informs has been organized to obtain data and process data to produce information to meet this challenge. We can help you by
- Developing tools for effective data collection.
- Creating study designs that can produce actionable answers
- Analyzing small or "big" data with health care economics and outcomes
- Collaborating to produce impactful scientific publications
- Applying lessons learned to define new medical solutions
About Us
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What we do
Clinical ‘big data’ health care economics and outcomes analytics.
Research plan development, analysis implementation and support for scientific publication. Operating with commercial claims data and/or proprietary ‘in-house’ billing records or medical records. Familiar with requirements of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA.)
Embedded software design and development
Medical instrumentation and device firmware for ‘proof of concept,’ prototype, pre-clinical evaluations and/or product development. Experience with US FDA and international regulatory considerations for medical device design and development.
Mobile software design and development
Mobile health care research application design, prototyping and development, including projects derived from open source ‘Research Kit’ resources for real-time, in the field, with the patient, clinical data collection. Registered Apple software developer and both prototyping and production development tools, including both Objective-C and Swift.
Who we are
Our CEO, Jeff Snell, is a multidisciplinary engineer-scientist with practical experience in epidemiological research, product utilization research, biomedical product development, pre-clinical research, and medical device research and development. He has more than 40 years of experience in the US medical device industry. Accomplishments:
- Defined data analysis methods and selected/recommended tool-chain for product performance and healthcare economic and outcomes research for a major US medical device manufacturer
- Completed research and transfer to development of multiple algorithms for implantable cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators. Pre-clinical testing (IRB approved), execution of clinical studies (domestic and international).
- Supervised multiple development teams for hardware and software development of FDA regulated (PMA/510k) medical instruments utilized by physicians and allied professionals to implant, manage and monitor implanted cardiac pacemakers.
- Senior member, IEEE
- ACM member, 30+ years
- More than 50 issued patents
Competency
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Technical
- “Big data” claims data analysis utilizing procedure and diagnosis code matching
- Billing code sets: CPT®1, ICD-92, ICD-102, HCPCS3
- Censored survival hazard analysis with covariate adjustment
- Statistical regression analysis of the intensity of a recurrent event
- Modeling repeated time-to-event health conditions with discontinuous risk intervals
- Cost effectiveness comparison between therapy alternatives
- Mortality rate assessment and comparison between groups
- Cohort matching & propensity scores
- Cohort background characteristics and demographics
- Economic outcomes assessment of therapy alternatives
- Visualization, including Kaplan-Meier survival, cumulative events, event rates, forest plot, funnel plot
- Data analysis tools: CRAN R, RStudio, Revolution Analytics RevoR
- Application development tools: iOS, MacOS, Windows, Unix (and related), C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, Perl, Python, Java, MatLab, assembly language, Fortran, Basic
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- CPT® is registered trademark of the American Medical Association
- ICD: International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
- HCPCS: Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
Recent Publications & Presentations
- “Big Data” Characterization of Sex-Specific Survival Following CIED Implant; Oral LBCT Presentation (study of nearly 270,000 patients presented by abstract first author, Dr. Niraj Varma MD FHRS) EUROPACE–CARDIOSTIM 2015.
- Relationship Between Level of Adherence to Automatic Wireless Remote Monitoring and Survival in Pacemaker and Defibrillator Patients; J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015;65(24):2601-2610. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2015.04.033.
- Impact of Remote Monitoring on Clinical Events & Healthcare Utilization: A Nationwide Assessment; Oral LBCT Presentation (92,566 patient study presented by abstract first author, Dr. Jonathan Piccini, MD, MHSc;) Heart Rhythm Society 2015.
- Remote Monitoring of CRT-P Patients is Associated With Improved Survival, Similar to CRT-D Patients; Oral Presentation (67,251 patient study presented by abstract first author, Dr. Niraj Varma, MD FHRS;) Cardiostim 2014
- Increased Adherence to Remote Monitoring is Associated with Reduced Mortality in Both Pacemaker and Defibrillator Patients; Oral Presentation (262,564 patient study presented by abstract first author, Dr. Suneet Mittal, MD FHRS;) Heart Rhythm Society 2014
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