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AHS outlines MDWAS unified health data plan; VITL role, privacy and timing questioned
Summary
Agency of Human Services and Green Mountain Care Board data staff described the MDWAS unified health data space and timelines for a Medicaid-centered data warehouse. Witnesses discussed Vital (Vermont Health Information Exchange) as a key partner, privacy and data-lag concerns, and the challenge of scaling from Medicaid to the broader population.
Agency of Human Services officials described a multi-component project the agency calls the Medicaid Data Warehouse and Analytics Solution (MDWAS) and framed it as a proof-of-concept for a broader unified health data space during testimony before the Senate Health & Welfare Committee on Feb. 20.
Will Dempsey, health care officer for AHS, said MDWAS is building a data lake and data warehouse that will link Medicaid claims and clinical data and enable reporting and role-based access for users. He told the committee the project uses federal funds for most development and is “on schedule and on scope and on budget.”
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