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West Des Moines-based company is building a giant national healthcare research database that will allow researchers to extract large quantities of information from myriad sources faster and more efficiently.
The Iowa Foundation for Medical Care, a medical information management company with satellite offices in Illinois, Maryland, Nevada and Virginia, received the $3.3 million contract to build the database as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act. Subsequent phases of the project may bring additional federal money to the Iowa company.
Mike Rozendaal, the IFMC's assistant vice president, said the company's experience with health data management helped it win the contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, one of several federal contracts the company has received. "Our company has a unique understanding of working with extremely large data warehouses and expertise in CMS data sets through our many years as a contractor with the agency," he said.
The data warehouse will include information from multiple CMS...