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Division of Health Cyberinfrastructure

SDSC’s cyberinfrastructure provides a solid foundation for healthcare projects at UC San Diego, in the San Diego region, throughout California, nationally and beyond, as evidenced by activities and grant awards that include the Center as lead or co-collaborator.

Current Major Program Involvement:

  • CMS MIG DE – In response to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) Section 6034, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as part of the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), was given authority and required to address Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse. SDSC developed the MIG Data Engine, the Medicaid Integrity Group’s cyberinfrastructure platform to support work in this area. In partnership with Chickasaw Nation Industries (CNI), SDSC provides cyberinfrastructure tools for the Medicaid Integrity Program (MIP) including:
    • A large, scalable data warehouse hosting claims and referential data from all US states and territories, scaling to 100’s of terabytes of data.
    • Clustered computational and database resource to analyze, mine and interact with this data
    • A suite of data analysis, mining, workflow and reporting applications supporting a diverse array of users
    • Security and middleware tools to tie applications and user populations together while maintain FISMA and HIPAA compliance
  • National Children’s Study – As one of its 27 Vanguard locations in the United States, the San Diego County site is a partnership between UC San Diego, San Diego State University, the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency and the First 5 Commission of San Diego. The San Diego location is part of the Southern and Central California Study Center, led by UC Irvine.
  • SCANNER – Launched in 2010 and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), SCANNER is a secure, scalable network that facilitates collaborative clinical research among widely dispersed institutions. Leveraging technical infrastructure that lays the foundation to enable nearly real-time effectiveness and prospective analysis of data collected from clinical databases, SCANNER allows institutions and study investigators to control access to data based on clinic-by-clinic policy model.