===== Cost, Utilization, Economics and Service Workgroup =====

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====Objectives:====
  - To develop specifications for methods and software that maybe used for healthcare resource utilization and costs analysis.
  - To augment standard OHDSI tools with ability to support health economic, health insurance, actuarial, and financial use cases

===Audience:===
Our special focus is on health economics, health insurance, actuarial and financing use cases that have not been the traditional strong suite of OHDSI.

**Workgroup Leads:**  [[https://www.ohdsi.org/who-we-are/collaborators/gowtham-rao/|Gowtham Rao]], [[http://forums.ohdsi.org/t/welcome-to-ohdsi-please-introduce-yourself/704/230|Dave Kern]]

**Workgroup Members:**  [[projects:workgroups:cost-wg:members|Participants]]
[[http://forums.ohdsi.org/users/SCYou/|Seng Chan You]]

**Meetings:** Every ...:

===Important Links===
**[[http://forums.ohdsi.org/t/workgroup-for-cost-utilization-economic-services/3976|Forum discussion]]**

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