Overview of the Policy and Services Research Data Center (PSRDC)

1. Overview of the Policy and Services Research Data Center (PSRDC) Charles J. Dion, M.A. Mary Armstrong, Ph.D. April 2016

2. Director Charles Dion (cdion@usf.edu or 813-974-3656) Tech & System Manager Lisa Holcomb Application Developer Brian Jim Research Assistants Rhonda Coleman Teri Waldren Statistical Data Analysts Diane Haynes Susan Jentz Rebecca Larsen Kristen Turner Data Entry Technicians Alex Andrews Alex Steinig Jonathan Ocampo Rebecca Macias Windell Blair People

3. The PSRDC houses two primary types of data: person-level claims, and facility level survey and reports data. These data are the property of the data sources and methods of obtaining permission to use them vary by source. Statewide person level data (typically 10 years reposited): Civil Commitment (Baker Act) Data Medicaid Claims and Eligibility (MH & PH) Behavioral Health Encounter Data State Death Files State Mental Hospital Data State SAMHIS Certification, Events, and Outcomes Data Criminal Justice (FDLE, DOC, DJJ) DCF Child Welfare Data (FSFN) Select County Level Data (e.g., Pinellas Data Collaborative): Criminal Justice Data Emergency Medical Services Social Service Data Data Examples

4. Have almost two dozen on-going projects and conduct ad hoc analyses as needed. Project Examples: Statewide Medicaid & Service Use Among Arrestees Pinellas Data Collaborative Pinellas Drug Court Study Criminal Justice Mental Health & Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center (statewide and individual projects with Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Lee, Marion, and Seminole counties) Hillsborough County Homeless Coalition Governor’s Executive Order 15-175-Analysis of Florida’s Behavioral Health System AHCA projects Evaluation of Florida’s Medicaid Managed Mental Health Plan Evaluation of Florida Medicaid Behavioral Pharmacy Program Recovery Oriented Medicaid Services for Persons with Severe Mental Illness Projects/Activities

5. Goal is to provide reasonable data access for research and evaluation, while ensuring protection of private information against security breaches through implementation of: Technology (software, hardware, network) Training (on-going use and security training) Policies (access, use and management) Data Network Committee monitors and implements new policy and security protocols: procurement/use policies (including agreements & MOUs) access/security policies security incident policy regular review of systems activity PSRDC Confidentiality Policy Computer Technology & Infrastructure

6. Ethical Use of Admin/Secondary Data • Security of the data • Confidentiality of information in data • Permission to use data • Appropriate/ethical use of the data • Stiles P. & Boothroyd, R. (2011). The Ethical Use of Administrative Data for Research Purposes (commissioned paper by the MacArthur Foundation for Intelligence for Social Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania – available at http://www.aisp.upenn.edu/best-practices/ethics/). • Stiles, P.G. & Petrila, J. (2011). Research and confidentiality: Legal issues and risk management strategies. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 17, 333-356. • Stiles, P.G., Boothroyd, R.A., Robst, J. & Ray, J.V. (2011). Ethically using administrative data in research: Medicaid administrators current practices and best practice recommendations. Administration & Policy, 43, 171-192. • Robst, J., Stiles, P. & Boothroyd, R. (2009). Establishing standards and practices for using administrative claims data. Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, 10 (2), 19-38.