A High-Tech Data Sandbox for Health Care Changemakers
Access the data, technology, and cross-cutting expertise you need to make health care innovation possible
meet our expertsAs professionals in the field of health, we’re driven to improve the systems our families, friends, and communities rely on.
The Health Data Innovation Lab (The Lab) connects health care industry professionals with world-class data scientists, social scientists, and technologists to advance innovation, improve operations, and meet ambitious goals.
Work with The Lab to add specialized expertise to your projects.
We can help you address complex challenges within your health care organization—or tackle broader issues related to fragmented care, social determinants of health, and health care inequality. Together, we can bring about meaningful, measurable change.
We serve decisionmakers and changemakers across the health care landscape.
We work with government agencies at all levels, commercial and academic health systems, philanthropies, foundations, and public- and private-sector businesses. Have an idea to test? A challenge to meet? Bring it to The Lab.
A place for changemakers to test new solutions
In The Lab, changemakers in government agencies, foundations, health care companies and health organizations can test ideas for solutions that improve health care. Together, we can make accessible patient-centered care possible.
- Government agencies and companies can leverage our experts and our technology to increase quality and efficiency.
- Foundations can use our lab to refine investment strategies or validate the size and funding of their health priorities.
- Organizations that have developed homegrown predictive models can test and validate their solutions against national data.
“Our experts sit at the center of the health care data pipeline. We have the tools and expertise needed to help our clients make an enormous positive impact on health care delivery.”
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Health Care
Work with us to prepare your solutions for success
Our health data experts analyze and improve the quality of data. They also find and correct bias in data sets so that our clients can have access to vast, accurate, and unbiased data that can reveal blind spots.
Access the data and technology you need to test your solutions. Present ideas to our panel of experts in health care policy, research, and payer and provider systems so that you understand the real-world human, policy, and business implications before new solutions roll out.
Our technologists understand the challenges of connecting disparate information systems and data sources. We overcome the challenges of data sharing and interoperability, making it possible to obtain longitudinal and holistic views of patients.
Mathematica draws on more than 50 years of experience in health care policy research. We partner with foundations, academic research centers, and companies across the health care ecosystem. Together our experts provide a complete picture of the challenges and opportunities your solution brings.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have been clients of Mathematica for decades. Our experts have developed and tested quality measures, evaluated policies, programs, and care models. They’ve also designed and built data quality improvement tools and data warehouses. We not only have access to all CMS data, we know it like the backs of our hands.
Workshop and experiment with health data
Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum. Bring your ideas to our experts and partners and test them against our data to get the answers you need to make real change. Experiment with our data science tech stack and tap experts across the health care system to get the answers you need to find out if your solution will work in the real world. Test your solution with national data, including EHR data, Medicare and Medicaid data, social determinants of health data, and more. Get guidance from data scientists and experts in health policy, health equity, and technology.
Leverage Mathematica's decades of experience partnering with organizations across the health ecosystem. Our experts will help you find the right data sets and the right methodologies to find the answers you need. They can also help organizations fill data gaps and make sense of the data they have. Organizations that work with The Lab will have access to additional collaborative expertise through academic and industry partners specializing in fields such as artificial intelligence, privacy and security, data linkage, and market-specific leadership.
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"There are critical gaps in the data being used to answer important questions. With the completeness of our data, Mathematica can partner with critical public sector agencies and philanthropies to advance patient-centered outcomes research and address some of the most important issues in healthcare today."
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"There are so many factors to consider in the health care system that it can make it easy for an innovative solution to fail. This is why stakeholders and experts across the health care system have to come together to make data innovation a reality. As a neutral convener, this is what the Health Data Innovation Lab does."
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