• Food Assistance Trafficking
  Food Assistance trafficking occurs when a store owner buys a client's food assistance credits at a discount so that the client can use the money to buy illicit items.  Department of Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG)uses the Data Warehouse to analyze Food Assistance usage and identify vendors who are likely to be trafficking. ( News Story )
• Child Day Care
  The Department of Human Services provides day care assistance to clients to allow them to leave home for employment. Some of these clients have abused the system to pay for unnecessary or undelivered child care. The OIG uses the data warehouse to identify clients who are receiving day care assistance but have not earned any income. ( NASCIO Award ).
• Surveillance and Utilization Review System
  The Department of Community Health uses the Data Warehouse for its Medicaid Surveillance and Utilization Review system in order to identify fraud. ( News Story )
• FARSTaRS - Business Tax Audit
  The Department of Treasury's Field Audit Research, Selection, Tracking and Reporting (FARSTaR) system is a fully automated and integrated audit compliance process that is revolutionizing the way the state administers its audits for more than 550,000 registered business taxpayers. ( NASCIO Award )

Policy Analysis

• Medicaid Usage
  The Data Warehouse was used to provide the Department of Management and Budget with an analysis of trends in the use of Medicaid as a replacement for company provided health insurance in order to plan for future Medicaid costs.
• SHADoW
  The Michigan State Housing Development Authority, in collaboration with the Departments of Human Services and Community Health and almost 500 private homeless services providers, has created the Statewide Homeless Assistance Data online Warehouse (SHADoW) as a single, consolidated, and de-identified source of information about services to the homeless. ( White Paper )

Error Detection/Correction

• Auto find/fix - food stamps
  The automated find and fix project is used by the Department of Human Services to analysis almost half a million Food Assistance records nightly in order to identify cases that may contain errors so that they can be corrected.

Public Service

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Location Based Services

• Child Placing Network
  The Department of Human Services has geographically enabled the Data Warehouse. It has taken advance of that connection to create a facility that allows Child Protective Services workers to identify the closest, most appropriate, foster home for abused and neglected children who must be removed from their homes. ( NASCIO Nomination )
• Food stamps
  After the great Northeast Power Blackout the Department of Human Services used the Data Warehouse and its geographic capabilities to determine the clients who had lost power for multiple days in the hottest part of the year in order to replace their food assistance.