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Provider Data Collaborative: A data-sharing community

Advance research, inform evidence-based practice and help improve patient outcomes by joining our virtual community.

Find new ways to collaborate and innovate

The irony is real. As the health care 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 data set

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

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 Get your data back analysis-ready with assistance from Optum

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Unlock the true value of your clinical data

Don’t leave one of your best resources untapped. Put your data to work to help improve patient lives and reduce the total cost of care.

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*All data are acquired and used in a manner consistent with customer agreements and applicable laws.

1. Optum upholds all regulatory standards and ensures that data licenses and services are commensurate with the fair market value.