NOI_Statement_of_Work.pdf

SECTION 2 - Description/Specifications

2.1 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

The Contractor shall furnish all of the necessary personnel, materials, services, facilities, (except as otherwise specified herein), and otherwise do all the things necessary for or incident to the performance of the work, based on the objectives as set forth below:

Background and Purpose Within the Office of the Secretary, the HHS IDEA Lab - overseen by the HHS Chief Technology

Officer - promotes activities in support of the Secretary’s Innovation and Management agendas.

This includes supporting the Department’s access to healthcare data that can help address large scale health data analytic needs.

The Department's Health Data Initiative encourages innovation through the uses of data and collaborations with non-government organizations are important to achieving new knowledge and understandings that leads to improvements in health and healthcare. The Health Data

Initiative is coordinated by the HHS IDEA Lab and overseen by the Deputy Secretary, HHS.

HHS needs to access data, collaborate in joint research projects, and help address large scale health data analytic needs with external holders of healthcare data. The Department needs external validation sources for methodological and statistical analyses directed at enhancing the quality of AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data and resultant estimates focused on the dimensions of health care utilization and payments. It also needs to analyze the available electronic health record data to conduct comparative health system performance studies, including use of hospital Employee Health Records data to assess the extent to which quality problems identified with quality improvement tools from claims data align.

Objective The contract is intended to facilitate innovation and leverage the significant data holdings of outside entities by opening up opportunities for accessing private sector data, consulting on projects, leveraging secured resources, improving efficiency in access to data, participating in testing new methods, validating algorithms, problem solving, and expanding the community of data users for HHS data integrated with private sector data.

The contract also provides an opportunity for HHS employees and contractors to work with private sector resources using administrative, clinical, and personal health record data integrated with HHS data within a secured environment; spark care delivery and outcomes innovations and conduct high impact health systems research; and promote and provide input to advances in technology for health care analytics, clinical care tools, etc. through an entrepreneur start up incubator.

The Contractor is expected to provide the following services or deliverables, subject to each mutually agreed upon Statement of Work (SOW):

access to or use of Optum Labs Data, the Optum Labs Data Warehouse Database

(OLDW), and any Sandboxes necessary for carrying out the access to its Library of

Artifacts (composed of Artifacts created by Optum Labs and Optum Labs’ partners) its

Labs Applications for use in a Sandbox;

view and search of Research Sandbox Data via a Secure Connection in such Sandbox using the tools available in the Sandbox;

creation, manipulation, analysis, and storage of extracts of Research Sandbox Data in such Sandbox and create Summary Results;

save and store such extracts and Summary Results in the Exploratory Sandbox;

download of the Summary Results out of such Research Sandbox, copy of the Summary

Results, analysis and review of the Summary Results, or portions thereof, for use perpetually internally or disclose the Summary Results inside and outside the Territory to third parties;

view and search the Research View via a Secure Connection in such Sandbox using the tools available in the Sandbox;

creation, manipulation, analysis, and storage of extracts of the Research View in the

Research Sandbox for limited periods of time;

view and search, via a Secure Connection, the Natural History of Disease (NHD) Data in the NHD Sandbox using the functionality therein, and analysis of the results (no access is given to the OLDW Database from an NHD Sandbox access to any Optum Labs Applications for use in a Sandbox;

training, data management, support, hosting and maintenance services related to the

Optum Labs Solutions, as well as the Research Services that HHS may obtain from

Optum Labs;

hosting of any HHS Applications for use by HHS in a Sandbox; and access to Optum Labs Solutions (other than the Documentation)

Each HHS OpDiv or StaffDiv can submit a Research Plan to Optum Labs to receive access to

Optum Labs Solutions. If approved, the Principal Investigator on the Research Plan will submit a

BPA Task/Call and an Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA).