HealthVerity announced that it has been awarded a contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide a large-scale, fully interoperable, real-world dataset to advance a wide range of COVID-19 research, decision making, and public health impact objectives. Using privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL), the HealthVerity data asset securely links de-identified patient-level data across medical and pharmacy claims, chargemaster, electronic medical records, and lab data, including genomic sequencing of COVID-19 variants, to generate comprehensive and longitudinal patient histories without sharing personally identifiable information.
The goal of this contract is to provide the CDC with a real-world dataset that is uniquely suited to provide novel insights into new and emerging priority questions related to SARS-CoV-2 variants, vaccinations, testing, re-infection, health impact, natural history, and the long-term effects of COVID-19. The data has high impact potential for CDC's COVID-19 response and surveillance efforts because it offers CDC scientists the opportunity to conduct complex analyses and develop use cases on disease patterns, progression, and health outcomes. Leveraging its HealthVerity IPGE platform, including the nation's largest privacy-protected healthcare and consumer data ecosystem, HealthVerity is assembling the largest, fully interoperable, real-world COVID-19 data asset ever acquired by the CDC.
"HealthVerity is proud to support the CDC in leveraging strategic data assets on its quest to understand the broad impact of COVID-19 on patients, healthcare systems, and communities," said Andrew Kress, CEO at HealthVerity. "We are pleased that our expertise in patient identity resolution and privacy management combined with the broad cross-sectional healthcare and consumer data we manage on behalf of our data partners uniquely enables us to deliver a level of dimensionality for evidence generation that is critical to this major public health endeavor."
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