The MIG-RATS, in cooperation with MPR, conduct 'how to' workshops on research topics. These typically occur in conjunction with MIG conferences. Content from the workshops is typically expanded into toolkits, but notes and materials distributed during these workshops are available here.
If you have any suggestions for research workshop topics, please contact the MIG-RATS. We welcome your input!
Conference Workshop Materials (September 2009 NCHSD Conference in Chicago, IL)
What Can We Learn About Our Medicaid Buy-In? Practical Research to Complete During the MIG
This jointly sponsored NCHSD/MIG-RATS session will focus on research activities MIGs can reasonably complete before the grant ends in 2011. It will emphasize the ways in which researchers could obtain administrative data or collect new data through surveys or focus groups to inform Medicaid Buy-In policy and build support for sustainability. The session will focus on four research activities that states could implement to learn more about their MBIs: participant survey, participant focus group; analysis of administrative data on health care (Medicaid data), analysis of administrative data on employment and earnings (UI data). Techniques could also be applied to research on other MIG initiatives.
Handouts from this session are available below. For additional resources, please see the Toolkit section of the MIG-RATS website.
Conference Workshop Notes (November 2006 MIG Conference in Chicago, IL)
TOPICAL WORKSHOPS
TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS
Conference workshop materials (April 2009 MIG/DMIE Summit in San Francisco, CA)
BUILDING DATA-SHARING INFRASTRUCTURE
Data-sharing infrastructure at the state level can increase a MIG’s ability to understand and evaluate service utilization, expenditures, and outcomes for persons with disabilities. In this interactive workshop session, a panel of MIG researchers who have built within state data-sharing capacity will talk about their experiences and lessons learned, and provide tips for successfully developing data-sharing infrastructure within your own state.
Nathaniel Anderson (Maine), Jean Hall (Kansas), and Kirsten Rowe (Virginia) shared their experience in building within state data-sharing infrastructure and responded to questions from the audience. Materials distributed during this workshop include:
- a tip sheet for building data-sharing infrastructure
- a sample data-sharing agreement - This agreement is out of date, but it was originally created and distributed by the Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA - the former name of CMS) and describes the critical elements of a data-sharing agreement.
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