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3rd Annual ICTS Symposium - 
Building A Learning Health Care System: From Lab to Laptop
The symposium will include a keynote address given by Patricia Brennan, RN, PhD, Director of the National Library of Medicine. In addition, the symposium will include plenary talks, skills-focused workshops, breakout groups, and a poster session. Posters will showcase the unique ways in which informatics tools advance research, academic training, clinical practice, and ultimately, patient health.

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Partnership Development & Sustainability Support Funding Program (PDSS)
Through our Center for Community Health Partnership and Research, we are pleased to announce the new Partnership Development & Sustainability Support Funding Program (PDSS). This mechanism provides ICTS investigators and their community partner(s) with up to $10,000 over a one-year period to develop the trust, infrastructure, capacity, and skills needed to support future collaborative grant opportunities. The PDSS is open to new partnerships in development, as well as existing partnerships.

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Spotlight

The IBM® MarketScan® Commercial Database has expanded to include 12 years of data (2006-2017). The MarketScan database is an extremely large, complex collection of individual-level medical and pharmacy claims from private healthcare plans.  The MarketScan Multi-State Medicaid Database, which includes individuals enrolled in State and/or Medicaid Managed Care programs, has expanded to include the years 2011-2017.

Additions to the AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) data inventory include the 2016 National Inpatient Sample (NIS), the 2015 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), and 2016 State data from NY, FL and WI.