1.1: Data Linking & Privacy

Linking data across programs and levels of government while fully protecting privacy

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Linking data across programs can lower evaluation costs and improve their quality, streamline reporting requirements for program providers and participants, and answer important questions about program performance. A number of Federal agencies are currently developing or using protocols and processes to share personally identifiable data to permit such linkages in ways that fully adhere to laws, regulations, and policies designed to protect individual privacy and confidentiality.

Stakeholder(s):

• Department of Housing and Urban Development: Example: The Department of Housing and Urban Development has partnered with the Department of Health and Human Services to match HUD administrative data with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data. The two agencies recently completed a successful match that will improve understanding of the characteristics of seniors living in publicly subsidized housing and how supportive housing interventions may affect their health care use.


• Department of Health and Human Services


• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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