Dear NBER Researchers,
I hope you all are well. Below please find information on a new COVID-19
Research Database that may be of interest.
Best wishes,
Alterra
Alterra Milone
Director, Research and Grants Management
Corporate Secretary
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: 617-588-0306
Fax: 617-868-7194
E-mail: alterra_at_nber.org
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Sent: 5/13/2020 4:41:22 PM
Subject: An Inflection Point for HCCI: Upcoming Releases, New COVID-19
Projects & Expanded Dataset
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An Inflection Point for HCCI: Upcoming Releases, New COVID-19 Projects &
Expanded Dataset
Dear friends and supporters of HCCI,
As the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, robust public health and
health services research remains vitally important. HCCI is working to
continue our regular reporting on health care costs and utilization
trends while also supporting rapid, responsive research on COVID-19 -
including a massive, new and free dataset for researchers (more on this
below).
On an organizational level, HCCI has been very busy transitioning from
our current commercial claims dataset to a new “HCCI 2.0” dataset -
expanded <
https://hcci.cmail19.com/t/j-l-qtjsdk-wwkrhylr-y/> with the
addition of billions of claims from Blue Cross and Blue Shield members.
HCCI President Niall Brennan provides a deeper look at HCCI’s activities
for 2020 in this new blog post
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Today, HCCI releases three analyses
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https://hcci.cmail19.com/t/j-l-qtjsdk-wwkrhylr-t/> on maternal health
care in the United States. The first compares the cost of childbirth
from state to state, using claims data from over 350,000 deliveries. An
issue paper on postpartum care finds that spending extends across the
full year after delivery. And a new analysis of prenatal care indicates
that utilization increased with age and the presence of risk factors.
Over the past several weeks, HCCI has also focused on supporting
COVID-19 research via two new projects:
With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, HCCI launched a
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https://hcci.cmail19.com/t/j-l-qtjsdk-wwkrhylr-i/> that will
partner with more than 100 hospitals and clinics representing eight
health care systems. These health systems have agreed to create COVID-19
patient data registries using a standard set of definitions and data
elements. In this way, HCCI can remotely query the data and combine
aggregated results across the different hospital systems to begin to
create a better understanding of COVID-19.
To support the broader research community’s efforts around COVID-19,
HCCI recently joined a coalition of health care data companies and
experts to develop the COVID-19 Research Database
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multiple high-quality health care datasets, being offered to researchers
free of charge to pursue critical studies related to COVID-19. HCCI’s
role is to facilitate the proposal review process, which we’ve developed
to be rapid and responsive to researchers’ needs in their efforts to
better understand and address COVID-19.
To that end, the COVID-19 Research Database is actively seeking study
submissions from researchers aiming to use real-world evidence to study
COVID-19 patients and disease spread, potential drug therapies, and the
larger impact on the U.S. population and healthcare system. Research
must be non-commercial in nature, with rapid and/or peer-reviewed
publication required as a key outcome.
The project’s data partners collectively have medical and Rx claims data
on over 300 million unique patients, and EMR data on over 40 million
unique patients. There is also mortality data representing over 80% of
U.S. deaths, updated weekly. Current data partners include Office Ally,
Symphony, Healthjump, Star Schema, and Mortality Data, with more to
come.
HCCI encourages you to consider this vast new (and did we mention
free?!) data resource as you work to study COVID-19 issues, and we’d
also appreciate your support in circulating this opportunity to any
researchers or organizations who may be interested in contributing to
the research database or conducting research. The first step is to
register on the COVID-19 Research Database
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https://hcci.cmail19.com/t/j-l-qtjsdk-wwkrhylr-h/> website – this will
give you access to data dictionaries, descriptions and application
resources to get started.
We are grateful for your ongoing interest in and support of HCCI’s work.
In health (research),
Niall Brennan and the team at HCCI
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