Another is computerized health care databases of the kind he has started in Iceland.

A case control study performed using a UK medical care database found that fluoroquinolone use was associated with a 1.9-fold increase in tendon problems.

HCUP provides access to health care databases for research and policy analysis, as well as tools and products to enhance the capabilities of the data.

Once an individual is registered on the Be a Donor site, their decision is recorded in the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care database.

THE managers also like IMS Health of Westport, Conn., a health care database company that supplies prescription information to drug companies.

The Nationwide Inpatient Sample is the largest all-payer inpatient care database in the United States from which national estimates of inpatient care can be derived.

The GPRD was a large primary care database, containing anonymised primary care data and links to a number of NHS and other data sources.

WellPoint Inc., if approved by regulators and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, would have 26 million members, potentially the largest comprehensive health care database outside the government.

They warn that sensitive health information might be linked to financial data or criminal records and that already tenuous privacy protections would be further weakened as existing managed care databases, for example, are linked.

The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, together with other health and welfare bodies in Finland have been rolling out a national health care database based on HL7 CDA R2 and V3 messages.

However this approach requires an integrated health care database not easily applicable within the US health care model, and the required community consent is probably not possible within the US legal/ethical framework [ 80 81 ] .

NHS Evidence allows users to search over 100 health and social care databases simultaneously, including The Cochrane Library, British National Formulary and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-industry partnership that serves as a national information resource of patient-level health care data.

"The privacy issues absolutely have to be addressed so that we can have a discussion about the benefits of helping consumers link their medical history over time," said Elliot M. Stone, chief executive of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, a nonprofit group that builds large health care databases.

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).