PINC AI™ Healthcare Data: Special Release: COVID-19

As the number of infections and deaths continues to rise globally, clinicians, scientists and researchers worldwide are struggling to understand all facets of COVID-19. Having sufficient data is the first step in evaluating the impact of this virus and designing adequate local and national public health responses to help manage and contain this pandemic. The PINC AI™ Healthcare Data (PHD) is equipped with HIPAA-compliant, de-identified patient data to support COVID-19-related research needs.

This special release of the PHD is a standalone version of the existing database, called the PHD Special Release COVID-19 edition (PHD-SR COVID-19). The database will provide all records for patient’s pre- pandemic, from Jan. 1, 2019, through the most current data available. The database will be refreshed on the first and third Monday of every month, as each new version of the database will be a complete refresh from the previous version. The PHD-SR COVID-19 will contain data from all facilities (approximately 850+), with 31 percent of those facilities submitting data to the PHD on a daily, weekly or bi-weekly basis, and 66 percent submitting data on a monthly basis. Currently, there are more than 2.2
million identified COVID-19 cases and a similar number of vaccines in the database.

The PHD is a large, U.S. hospital-based, service-level, all-payer database that contains information on inpatient discharges, primarily from geographically diverse non-profit, non-
governmental, community and teaching hospitals and health systems from rural and urban areas. Hospitals and health systems submit administrative healthcare utilization and financial data from patient encounters. Inpatient admission data include more than 135 million visits with more than 13 million per year since 2012, representing approximately 25 percent of annual U.S. inpatient admissions.2 Outpatient encounters include more than 1 billion outpatient visits, with more than 115 million visits per year since 2012. Outpatient visits to emergency departments, ambulatory surgery centers and alternate sites of care are included. The PHD contains data from more than 260 million unique patients.