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:
(Links for the details and information on how to access included, scroll left/right to see more details when on a smaller screen.)
| Access level | Data | Year | Funded/ Owned by | PI/Manager | Link for details | How to access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DUA physical files | Texas Medicare | 2000–2023 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | Data Management and Analysis Core | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) linked to Medicare | 1999–2020 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | Data Management and Analysis Core | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | SEER – Medicare linked data | 1999–2020 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | Data Management and Analysis Core | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | Texas Medicaid | 2018–2021 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | Data Management and Analysis Core | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) linked to Medicaid | 1995–2018 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | Data Management and Analysis Core | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | TCR linked to Medicare Health Outcome Survey (MHOS) | 1998–2021 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | Data Management and Analysis Core | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | TCR-Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) | 1999–2019 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | Data Management and Analysis Core | Via pilot or collaborative projects |
| DUA physical files | TCR-Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) | 1995–2020 | CPRIT | Yong-Fang Kuo | Data Management and Analysis Core | 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) | 2013–2022 | AHRQ | Xiaoying Yu | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | IRB approval, submit a protocol reviewed by OBIOS |
| DUA physical files | National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS) Database | 2006–2014, 2017–2022 | AHRQ | Xiaoying Yu | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | IRB approval, submit a protocol reviewed by OBIOS |
| Housed at OBIOS | MarketScan Research Databases | 2012–2023 | UTMB | Xiaoying Yu | Merative | 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 | Cosmos | Pending | |
| UTMB ITS | TriNetX | UTMB | CTSA@utmb.edu | The Institute for Translational Sciences | Submit request via https://utmb.us/3ve | |
| Public | Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) | AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | Contact AHRQ Data Center | ||
| Public | Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) | CMS | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | Contact Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) | ||
| Public | Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (HEPESE) | NIA | Kyriakos S Markides | National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging | Available from website | |
| Public | Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) | NIA | Rebecca Wong | Mexican Health & Aging Study | Available from website | |
| Public | Health and Retirement Study (HRS) | NIA & SSA | University of Michigan | The Health and Retirement Study | Available from website | |
| Public | National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) | NIA & INEGI | National Health and Aging Trends Study | Available from website | ||
| Public | National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) | CDC | CDC | Available from website | ||
| Public | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) | CDC | CDC | Available from website | ||
| Public | Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) | CDC | CDC | Available from website | ||
| Public | Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) | NCI | National Cancer Institute | Available from website | ||
| Public | National Health Care Surveys (NHCS) | CDC | CDC | Available from website | ||
| Public | National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) | CDC | CDC | Available from website |