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The Synthetic Healthcare Database for Research (SyH-DR) is an all-payer, nationally representative claims database. The database consists of a sample of inpatient, outpatient, and prescription drug claims, including utilization, payment, and enrollment data, for people insured by Medicare, Medicaid, or commercial health insurance in 2016. AHRQ created SyH-DR, in part, as a resource to facilitate improvements to price and quality transparency in healthcare.
SyH-DR is a synthetic database that replicates the structure and statistical properties of the original claims data while protecting privacy and confidentiality of people and institutions. Synthetic data are created by statistically modeling or changing original data so that new values or data elements are generated while maintaining the original data's statistical properties. Additional steps, such as masking, are taken to reduce the risk of identifying people and institutions so that the data may be made publicly available to a broad community of researchers. AHRQ approval is required for access to SyH-DR. User must submit an application and data use agreement. |
https://www.ahrq.gov/data/innovations/syh-dr.html |