IDA’s health research team is a diverse and interdisciplinary group of researchers who seek to answer the government’s most challenging questions through innovative problem solving, rigorous analysis, and deep institutional expertise. Our work spans the continuum of health care ranging from health system reform, health insurance re-design, process improvement and quality management, and health care information technology. IDA’s independence empowers objective, data-driven analysis of the highest quality performed in a research environment free of commercial interest. Because of our unique relationship with our U.S. Government sponsors, IDA enjoys unusual access to classified government information and sensitive proprietary information.
Knowledge Domains:
- Health system reform
- Medical force management and readiness
- Medical education and training
- Health insurance design and value-based care
- Health information technology (IT)
- Enterprise strategy and transformation
- Medical data analytics, modeling, and simulation
- Resource allocation and cost analysis
- Public Health
- Veterans Health
Core Capabilities:
- Evaluating health policies and legislation
- Optimizing the medical workforce and costing personnel
- Analyzing facility and network workload
- Conducting analyses of large claims databases
- Assessments of health information technology
- Studying variations in outcomes, cost, and quality
