The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA

Abstract #70223

Po-Huang Chiang, MPH¹, Der-Ming Liou, PhD¹, Shu-I Chiu, MS², Yi-Ling Hou, MBA², and Yaw-Tang Shih, MD, DrPH³. (1) Dept. of Health Informatics and Decision Making, National Yang-Ming University, 155 Li-Long Rd., Taipei, 11529, Taiwan, 886-2-26534401, chiangp@nhri.org.tw, (2) Department of Research Resources, National Health Research Institutes, 2F 109 Min-Chuan E. Rd., Sec. 6, Taipei, 114, Taiwan, (3) Division of Health Policy Research, National Health Research Institutes, 2A, 109, Min-Chuan East Road, Section 6, Taipei, 114, Taiwan

To improve our understanding of factors and mechanisms that affect our health industry is a fundamental necessity for planning appropriate health policy and preventive interventions in Taiwan. National Health Insurance database, with at least 21 million outpatient and inpatient records every month, provide a unique opportunity to examine the health issues to the society as a whole. This project describes the planning and development of the Health Knowledge Information Discovery System (Health KIDS) in use of National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), which is based on data from the National Health Insurance Database provided by the Bureau of National Health Insurance, Department of Health in Taiwan and managed by National Health Research Institutes (NHRI). The discussion begins with the history and initial rationale of NHIRD, which began 4 years ago, and continues with a description of the development of making available and useful of health insurance claim data upon which NHIRD is based. It summarized the development of Health KIDS which use the Sagent solution to extract, transform and organize the insurance data to bring the information to decision makers for review and analysis.

Learning Objectives:

• 1.Learn the application knowledge discovery in database (KDD)."
• 2.Using the application to preview the health status in Taiwan from National Health Insurance database."
• 3.Set up health indicators to oversee the health care system."

Keywords: Health Management Information Systems, Injecting Drug Use

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.