Find new ways to collaborate and innovate
The irony is real. As the healthcare system generates more data, it becomes harder to put the information to use. Despite this, the potential benefits to patient outcomes and operational efficiencies realized from mining insights within the data are widely acknowledged.
The question is how do we move from “What if…?” to “Well done!”? Understanding your patient population — and how it compares to nationwide benchmarks — are big first steps. But two hurdles exist:
- Investing in the technical infrastructure to make data easier to use by your organization’s researchers
- Overcoming data silos that inhibit holistic views across geographies and sectors of health care
To address these issues, health system leaders are increasingly forming collaboratives that connect their researchers with curated, ready-to-use data sets.
Gain access to rich patient data assets and capabilities
Make data-driven decisions
At Optum, we understand both the difficulty in making real-world data (RWD) usable and the transformative benefits they can deliver. And we recognize there is more we can do to help health care organizations across the country get more out of their data.
We’ve created a virtual data-sharing community of clinicians and researchers committed to improving patient outcomes with data-driven decisions.
There’s power in partnership. That’s why we’re offering the ability to share your clinical data in exchange for IT bandwidth and the data management resources needed to support innovative clinical and operational research.
Benchmark and compare against our nationwide dataset
The Provider Data Collaborative offers participating health care organizations around the country access to our rich real-world data assets and capabilities. They can then more easily analyze their own data and understand the broader health care landscape.
And with those insights in hand, they can improve patient outcomes, more confidently pursue population health initiatives, remove friction and operate more efficiently.
We’ll make your data research-ready
We take the heavy lifting off our members’ shoulders. Collaborative partners share their longitudinal EHR data1 and benefit from our trusted and established data infrastructure.* The structured and unstructured data are:
- Cleaned
- Normalized
- Aggregated
- De-identified and tokenized
- Secured
- Run through Optum natural language processing (NLP)
Members then receive their own clinical data in a format that’s easier to analyze and share within their organization, and get access to our nationwide, aggregated, de-identified real-world research data set.
Key benefits
Put your data to work to help improve patient lives and reduce the total cost of care.
One of the largest and most trusted data sets
Optum real-world data, including over 100 million longitudinal EHR lives, were cited in over 1,000 peer-reviewed articles in the past 10 years.
Access to integrated clinical and claims data
Capture a complete view of diverse patient journeys by studying clinical details, costs and utilization.
Cutting-edge analytical environment
Your researchers and data scientists access the data through a secure, cloud-based platform equipped with the latest analytical tools.
Additional services and support
We can help with precision patient-finding for your clinical trials, connections with other Collaborative members and more.
Get your data back analysis-ready
Get your data back analysis-ready with assistance from Optum. The process first involves data extraction and processing. The analysis-ready data is then available through cloud storage on dashboards for basic analytics and visualizations.
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*All data are acquired and used in a manner consistent with customer agreements and applicable laws.
- Optum upholds all regulatory standards and ensures that data licenses and services are commensurate with the fair market value.