A New Tool for Estimating the Economic Value of Overdoses Averted Demonstrating the economic value of an intervention can be difficult, especially when the benefits include overdoses that never happen. The HD2A Modeling and Economic Resource Center (MERC) has developed the Value of Overdoses Averted Calculator to help research teams estimate the economic value of averting non-fatal and fatal overdoses through their interventions. When an intervention prevents an overdose or…

Medicare and Medicaid Claims Documentation (VRDC Tool) A secure virtual research environment, the CCW Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) provides researchers with timely, efficient, cost-effective access to CMS Medicare and Medicaid data. Within the VRDC, users can: Access approved data files and perform data manipulation within a secure CMS environment Upload external data to their workspace and analyze it alongside approved CMS datasets Download aggregated reports and results to their…

Helpful Data Sharing Resource Now Available! Developing a Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plan that complies with NIH and HEAL data sharing policies can be challenging, as it requires navigating multiple requirements with policy guidance located in multiple places. Further, HEAL studies often use a combination of different data types with different allowances for data sharing, leading to some confusion over how to best characterize data sharing intent. The HD2A…