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Truveta Data now includes more than 120 million de-identified patients
Truveta has also partnered with more than 100 organizations across life sciences, healthcare, public health, academic research organizations, and others to use regulatory-grade EHR data enabling scientifically rigorous research.
Off-label use of drugs and devices in medical practice
A common misconception is that drugs and devices must gain explicit approval from the FDA for each specific use before healthcare providers can employ them. However, a practice...
The Adderall shortage: Exploring rates of prescription fills over time
There was a decrease in the rate of amphetamine/dextroamphetamine (Adderall) prescription fills per eligible population starting in the fall of 2022; prescription fill rates were...
Access to GLP-1 RA anti-obesity medications for Medicare-aged adults
Prior to the new Medicare guidelines going into effect, Truveta Research and Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, explored the first-time prescribing and...
Real-time monitoring of respiratory virus-associated hospitalizations: Trends from October 2019 through February 2024
Overall, the rate of hospitalizations associated with respiratory viruses has decreased throughout February 2024 (-20.0%) compared to January 2024. While COVID- and...
Truveta wins SXSW Innovation Award for Artificial Intelligence
Truveta has won the 2024 South by Southwest Innovation Award in Artificial Intelligence for its AI-enabled health research and the Truveta Language Model (TLM). TLM is a...
Understanding endometriosis: How real-world data can change the lives of 200 million women
Stories from women whose endometriosis pain has been dismissed are devastatingly common. A typical woman in the United States will wait 10 years after her symptoms first appear...
Case study: Assessing the comparative safety of novel pulmonary embolism treatments
Each year, approximately 900,000 patients in the US are affected by a pulmonary embolism (PE), a blood clot causing a blockage in one or more pulmonary arteries in the lungs. PE...
Outcomes and disparities for patients with aortic stenosis, classified by echocardiogram data
Disparities in time to treatment and treatment outcomes exist for people with severe aortic stenosis receiving TAVR and SAVR procedures. We studied the rate of people who receive...
Cardiac catheterization reports now available in Truveta Data at scale to advance cardiovascular research
Healthcare data traditionally has been too siloed, inaccessible, and messy to be useful for research. And one of the biggest challenges has been that critical information about a...