The grant is part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act’s goal of comparative effectiveness research, the report said.
In the short term, researchers look to publish an academic paper on the method of creating computer models to analyze the different statistical parameters of the different data. After the software is created, it is expected to be made available to the Medical College of Wisconsin and the National Institutes of Health.
In the long term, the software will help researchers at institutions nationwide build better models using the Medicare billing records data and other databases to determine what treatments and new technologies work best for patients.
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