DIMDI starts data pilot operation
21.02.2014 18:16
DIMDI's new information system for supply data (data transparency) begins pilot operation. This means that aggregated care data from statutory health insurance companies can be used for analyzes for the first time.
According to the DIMDI, the system opens up new opportunities for health services research in particular: among other things, outpatient and inpatient diagnoses as well as data on outpatient prescribed and billed medicines are accessible. This information was not previously available in this completeness - across the various statutory health insurance companies. The health insurance companies provide the Federal Insurance Office (BVA) has been providing annually pseudonymized data for morbidity-oriented risk structure adjustment (Morbi-RSA). According to the Data Transparency Ordinance of September 10, 2012, this is DIMDI enable a defined group of users to analyze this data. The new supply data information system, which is now starting pilot operation, is used for this purpose. The DIMDI will be the one from BVA transmitted Morbi-RSA-Consolidate data across multiple years. The data for the compensation years 2009 and 2010 are currently available. They will be supplemented by the data from 2011 in the second quarter of 2014.
During the pilot phase, those entitled can initially only request that the data processing center of the DIMDI carries out analyzes using SQL programs that the authorized parties themselves developed based on the example data set. During the second quarter of 2014, the data processing center will additionally offer: DaTraV-Evaluate data according to a question formulated by the applicant. The subsequent expansion stages will gradually expand the procedures for data provision: among other things, to evaluate data via SAS or to analyze pseudonymized individual data at a guest workstation.
The information system is financed by the statutory health insurance companies. For the preparation of the data by the DIMDI Usage fees will apply. The Federal Ministry of Health is currently working on the fee regulations.
It is planned to evaluate the information system procedures in 2015. This is already in advance DIMDI Therefore, there is also a lively exchange with (potential) users. The system was detailed at the end of January TMF-Healthcare Research Forum presented (technology and method platform for networked medical research
See also the interview with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann (University of Greifswald) in the current issue of “Monitor Health Services Research”.