TRI is excited to announce ARLife, a new data resource and funding opportunity.
Webinars to review example projects, program goals, and expectations will be offered on June 8 at noon and June 16 at 4 p.m.
The portal for accepting proposals goes live June 8.
Funding Details
Read the full funding opportunity announcement.
ARLife facilitates access to disparate “real-world data” resources that are not commonly combined for data-oriented health services research. ARLife’s secure data sharing platform enables individual level linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data from EPIC from Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) and/or UAMS with data assets at the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI) under the Arkansas Healthcare Transformation Initiative (HTI).
The HTI contains a mandatory All-Payer Claims Dataset (APCD) including enrollment, medical claims and pharmacy claims from Medicaid, Medicare, commercial insurance plans, and publicly funded self-insured plans. Other available data include individual level linked birth and death certificates, the Arkansas Cancer Registry, and uninsured emergency department and hospital discharge data.
ARLife seeks proposals that will use this new resource to address questions seeking to identify healthcare solutions to health challenges in Arkansas. Examples of projects that could be conducted using ARLife include (but are not limited to):
- Projects that examine early life influences on later adult health outcomes or health care utilization
- Projects that examine potential gaps in medical care associated with life-stage transitions of care (e.g., adolescents aging into adult care with condition-specific needs)
- Projects that require maternal-child linkage (e.g., maternal factors affecting children’s health)
- Projects that examine disease burdens over various stages of life
- Projects focusing on complex conditions that require high levels of care coordination
Priority will be given to the proposal(s) that align with the goals of the program and have the potential for future external funding based on the findings of the ARLife award.