Exploitation of claims data of statutory health insurances for health monitoring and reporting
Description
- Health monitoring describes the state of health of populations and is used to inform politics, researchers, stakeholders and the public. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), a central federal institution, is responsible for health monitoring in Germany. The RKI issued a call for proposals for the exploitation of claims data of statutory health insurances for health monitoring thus highlighting the importance of claims data of statutory health insurances for health monitoring. The bid of the “Leibniz-Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS” was accepted to investigate the utility of claims data for this purpose with data from the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database. The study was carried out using heart failure as an example.
In this study, incidence and prevalence of heart failure were estimated and drug treatment, type and frequency of inpatient and outpatient treatment of patients with heart failure were described and mortality indicators of patients with heart failure were estimated.
The mentioned estimates, which are relevant for health monitoring, were in good accordance with official statistics, register studies or other epidemiological studies. The study showed that data of statutory health insurances are –especially due to large sample sizes and the longitudinal character of the data- a valuable data source for health monitoring purposes.
The study report was sent to the Robert Koch Institute. First results have been published in the "Bundesgesundheitsblatt" (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00103-013-1912-1).
Funding period
- Begin: January 2010
End: December 2010
Sponsor
- Robert Koch Institute
Contact
Selected project-related publications
- Ohlmeier C, Mikolajczyk R, Frick J, Prütz F, Haverkamp W, Garbe E. Incidence, prevalence and one-year all-cause mortality of heart failure in Germany: A study based on electronic healthcare data of more than six million persons. Clinical Research in Cardiology. 2015;104(8):688-696.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-015-0841-4 - Ohlmeier C, Frick J, Prütz F, Lampert T, Ziese T, Mikolajczyk R, Garbe E. Nutzungsmöglichkeiten von Routinedaten der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung in der Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz. 2014;57(4):464-472.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-013-1912-1 - Ohlmeier C, Garbe E, Frick J, Augustin S, Mikolajczyk R. Nutzbarkeit von Abrechnungsdaten der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherungen für die Gesundheitsberichtserstattung am Beispiel der Herzinsuffizienz. 7. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi), 26.-29. September 2012, Regensburg.
- Jobski K, Mikolajczyk R, Ohlmeier C, Garbe E. Medikamentöse Therapie der Herzinsuffizienz in Deutschland anhand von Abrechnungsdaten der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherungen. 57. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), 16.-21. September 2012, Braunschweig.
- Heidrich J, Mikolajczyk R, Augustin S, Garbe E. Häufigkeit und Versorgungsmerkmale der Herzinsuffizienz - Sekundärdatenanalyse einer Versichertenstichprobe. "Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik - Gemeinsam forschen für Gesundheit". 56. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS) und 6. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi), 26.-29. September 2011, Mainz.