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This report covers Abt-developed automated research tools for 21st century knowledge curation to quickly examine vast amounts of information within a domain.

AHRQ enlisted Abt Global and IMPAQ to develop MHCSIII to improve patient safety; four journal articles by Abt staff were generated by the project.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

As the single largest payer for health care in the United States, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) collects massive amounts of data. CMS has over 6,000 employees nationwide responsible for programs that provide insurance coverage to…