Table 3.

State Data Enhancement Grants to Improve Clinical Content

State	Grantee and Source of Statewide Discharge Data	Enhancement of Statewide Hospital Discharge Data
Florida	Grantee	Linked inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory surgery data to vital statistics (birth and death) and hospital financial data to create a multiyear enhanced statewide maternal child dataset. Strategies for linkage of the maternal and child records were created to overcome such challenges as multiple births and records with missing patient identifiers.
	University of South Florida
	Source of Statewide Discharge Data
	Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Hawaii	Grantee	Linked statewide data to laboratory results data; further developed master patient identifier to link and track patients across hospitals throughout the state.
	Queen’s Medical Center
	Source of Statewide Discharge Data
	Hawaii Health Information Corporation
Minnesota	Grantee and Source of Discharge Data	Increased number of hospitals submitting laboratory data for linkage to discharge data, added inpatient pharmacy linkage, improved linkage of patients across hospitals and with death certificates. Focused on treatment of acute decompensated heart failure.
	Minnesota Hospital Association
New Jersey	Grantee	Linked inpatient and emergency department data to prehospital emergency medical services data and death certificates. Focused on therapeutic hypothermia on survivors of cardiac arrest.
	Rutgers University
	Source of Statewide Discharge Data
	New Jersey Department of Health
New York	Grantee and Source of Discharge Data New York Department of Health	Linked discharge data to laboratory results data. Focused on coronary artery bypass graft surgery and elective percutaneous coronary interventions.

Source: AHRQ (2014a).