About Us
Pharmaceutical
Research Computing (PRC) is a research center within the Department of
Pharmaceutical Health Services Research in the
University of Maryland Baltimore
School of Pharmacy.
Our staff is a group of highly skilled professionals in the
fields of information technology, statistics, computer
programming, and
pharmacy. Together, we strive
to provide quality research support for faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and other researchers
with data warehousing and analysis needs. PRC is self-supported by revenues generated from
the services we provide.
Since our
inception in 1998, PRC has partnered with numerous experienced
researchers on different type of
projects
that are funded by the sources listed below. Many of these
projects have resulted in
publications
in peer-reviewed journals and reports submitted to federal or state
agencies.
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Federal government agencies (e.g., NIH, AHRQ,
NCI, FDA)
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State government agencies (e.g., Pennsylvania Department of Public
Welfare, Maryland Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene, University of Massachusetts)
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Foundations (e.g., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Commonwealth
Foundation)
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Pharmaceutical companies |
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Other public and private sectors
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We have extensive experience working with
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Large administrative claims and encounter data (e.g.,
Medicare,
Medicaid,
HMO) |
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Secondary data (e.g.,
SEER-Medicare,
USRDS,
Marketscan,
National VHA,
ARF,
MEPS) |
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Primary data including pharmacy and medical information (e.g., service evaluation, survey) |
In addition, we
have developed a
drug dictionary for the MCBS drug data as well as a
web-based data query system where authorized users can run
queries and access results by file transfer protocol.
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