The IMPACT Collaboratory will host a special webinar event featuring leaders from the Long-Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative, who will provide an introduction and overview to this powerful new resource. The webinar will be December 7 from 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm EST and will feature IMPACT’s Vince Mor, PhD, David Dore, PharmD, PhD, from Exponent, and David Gifford, MD, MPH from the American Health Care Association (AHCA). Participants will learn more about the Data Cooperative, its membership, how to join, and options for data access.
The LTC Data Cooperative is a nationwide effort funded by the National Institute on Aging, to assemble resident health records to improve treatment outcomes and be better prepared for public health events in the future. An outgrowth of work led by Vince Mor in response to COVID-19, this initiative brings together healthcare systems and data management resources to create the largest integrated database of detailed, normalized, electronic health record (EHR) data from nursing homes (NH) in the United States. The EHR data can also be linked to Medicare claims data.
The LTC Data Cooperative will:
- Assist providers with health care operations, including care coordination, risk stratification and quality performance reporting.
- Support public health monitoring for medical conditions and infections, including COVID-19.
- Enable observational studies of the LTC population, ranging from comparative treatment effectiveness studies, to epidemiological studies of risk to pharmaco-epidemiological studies.
- Facilitate provider and patient recruitment into clinical research studies, including stage 3 and 4 embedded pragmatic clinical trials.
The LTC Data Cooperative’s comprehensive data set will facilitate researchers’ ability to test the impact of treatments and other interventions intended to improve the lives of NH residents through observational studies and pragmatic clinical trials. This will enable researchers to generate real-world evidence on the effectiveness of different treatments and care practices for older adults, individuals with disabilities, and people living with dementia in nursing homes.
Zoom Info: https://hebrewseniorlife.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hBhIcSmSRKCdbbmxfmBLSQ