At Optum Epidemiology, we realized there was need
for information about the safety of medications during pregnancy.
And so we developed a platform
that we call the Dynamic Assessment of Pregnancies
and Infants and this allows us to look at a broad range
of pregnancy-related questions.
The platform that we've built enables us to link medications
that the mother took with outcomes that the infant has.
What makes this unique at Optum is the depth of the data.
This platform is constructed of claims data,
as well as electronic health record data,
and also the combination of those two.
And that allows us to answer questions about exposures,
outcomes or covariates that we may not be able to assess
in any particular data source alone.
The historical data in this platform is
over 800,000 pregnancies, and it grows
by 80,000 pregnancies every year.
This tool is really powerful in that it's continually growing.
And the more it grows, the more we learn about the effects
of medication during pregnancy.
It's not enough to just have access to big data.
At Optum Epidemiology, we have an unparalleled combination
of expertise and data access that enable us
to provide really powerful solutions for our clients.