Data availability
OBIOS oversees the Merative MarketScan database, which contains longitudinal medical and pharmacy claims data for over 273 million unique enrollees in United States. The annual medical databases include private-sector health data from approximately 350 payers. Historically, more than 20 billion service records are available in the MarketScan databases.
Besides MarketScan databases, the OBIOS maintains a large set of population-based health datasets. These datasets include: National Inpatient Sample; National Readmission Database; 100% Texas Medicare data; 100% Texas Medicaid data; 100% national Medicare data for hospital discharge, assessments from inpatient rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, and home health care; SEER-Medicare data; and the Texas Cancer registry linked to Medicare data under various CMS and NCI data user agreements. Some of these data are supported by Data Management and Analysis Core for Comparative Effectiveness Research on Cancer in Texas funded by CPRIT.
We have biostatisticians and faculty who are Epic certified. With IRB approval, they can provide support to analyze EPIC EHR data. OBIOS also has experience and expertise in analyzing TriNetX data and will provide technical support. In addition, OBIOS provides technical assistance and methodological consultation to access and analyze publicly available population-based datasets including longitudinal cohort studies and national survey data.
Log of data available via OBIOS or public:
| Access level | Data | Year | Funded/ Owned by | PI/Manager | Link for details | How to access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DUA physical files | Texas Medicare | 2000-2022 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://www.utmb.edu/dmac/data | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) linked to Medicare | 1999-2020 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://www.utmb.edu/dmac/data | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) – Medicare linked data | 2000-2019 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://www.utmb.edu/dmac/data | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | Texas Medicaid | 2018-2021 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://www.utmb.edu/dmac/data | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) linked to Medicaid | 1995-2018 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://www.utmb.edu/dmac/data | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | TCR linked to Medicare Health Outcome Survey (MHOS) | 1998-2019 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://www.utmb.edu/dmac/data | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | TCR-Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) | 1999-2019 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://www.utmb.edu/dmac/data | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | TCR-Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) | 1995-2020 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://www.utmb.edu/dmac/data | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | 100% Post acute Medicare data | 2012-2022 | Multiple grants | Yong-Fang Kuo | Via collaborative projects | |
| DUA physical files | Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) | 2013-2021 | AHRQ | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/nrddbdocumentation.jsp | IRB approval, submit a protocol reviewed by OBIOS |
| DUA physical files | National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS) Database | 2006-2014, 2017-2020 | AHRQ | Yong-Fang Kuo | https://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/nrddbdocumentation.jsp | IRB approval, submit a protocol reviewed by OBIOS |
| Housed at OBIOS | MarketScan Research Databases | 2012-2022 | UTMB | Xiaoying Yu | https://www.merative.com/documents/brief/marketscan-explainer-general marketscan-explainer-general.pdf | IRB approval, submit a protocol reviewed by OBIOS |
| UTMB Health System | UTMB Epic | UTMB | UTMB | N/A | IRB approval, support by EPIC certifiers at OBIOS | |
| UTMB Health System | Epic Cosmos | UTMB | UTMB contact: Peter McCaffery | https://cosmos.epic.com/about | Pending | |
| UTMB ITS | TriNetX | UTMB | CTSA@utmb.edu | https://www.utmb.edu/its/its-informatics-service-center/health-informatics/trinetx-group/trinetx | Submit request via https://utmb.us/3ve | |
| Public | Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) | AHRQ | https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb | Contact AHRQ Data Center | ||
| Public | Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) | CMS | https://www.cms.gov/data-research/research/medicare-current-beneficiary-survey | Contact Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) | ||
| Public | Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (HEPESE) | NIA | Kyriakos S Markides | https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/NACDA/series/546 | Available from website | |
| Public | Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) | NIA | Rebecca Wong | https://www.mhasweb.org/Home/index.aspx | Available from website | |
| Public | Health and Retirement Study (HRS) | NIA & SSA | University of Michigan | https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/ | Available from website | |
| Public | National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) | NIA & INEGI | https://www.nhats.org/researcher/nhats | Available from website | ||
| Public | National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) | CDC | https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/index.htm | Available from website | ||
| Public | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) | CDC | https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.htm | Available from website | ||
| Public | Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) | CDC | https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.html | Available from website | ||
| Public | Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) | NCI | https://seer.cancer.gov/ | Available from website | ||
| Public | National Health Care Surveys (NHCS) | CDC | https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dhcs/index.htm | Available from website | ||
| Public | National Health Care Surveys (NHCS) | CDC | https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm | Available from website |