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MWD-76-100 1 (1976-03-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaauys0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTfIVICTED - outs.de thie Cenerat *Accownting Offz, -n~ 4,o D..- of specific approval -7 / 1by the Of~fica- w! Cu .ga a j iai ~EIIatlens, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES - WASHINGTON, D.C. 20543M2 B-164031 (5) RELEASED MAR 09 1976 The Honorable Lloyd Meeds House of Representatives Dear Mr. Meeds: In a November 21, 1974, letter, you and Congressman Bell- asked us to obtain information relating to the administration and subsequent termination by the National Center for Health Services Research, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), of a 5-year research demonstration grant to the University of Southern California for Project SEARCH.1 SEARCH's objectives were to develop an automated information and referral system for medical and social services providers which would increase the percentage of appropriate health care referrals by health workers in Los Angeles County. Our work was performed at Project SEARCH's Los Angeles offices, at offices of organizations that had agreed to con- tract to use the SEARCH system, and at the Center's head- quarters in Rockville, Maryland. As requested by your office, we have not obtained com- ments on this report from HEW. We have, however, discussed the information informally with Center officials. BACKGROUND Work on a project similar to SEARCH had been started under an HEW 2-year feasibility study contract awarded to the university in February 1968. Federal funds made avail- able under this contract totaled about $100,000. The con- tract was terminated after the Center awarded the grant in January 1970 for about $757,000 in direct costs to fund SEARCH. The grant also provided for completion of the feasibility study. During the 5-year grant period, the project staff sub- stantially completed an inventory of individual and organi- zational providers of medical and social services and stored it in a computer data bank. The staff developed computer programs to provide access to the data by matching service needs with service providers and produced several publica- tions, some of which were hundreds of pages in length. MWD-76-100

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