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Reconcile your RWD expectations to maximize your investment

Understand how routine clinical practice impacts information captured in real-world data (RWD).

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Increasing potential of genomic data

Hear from experts in this Endpoints News webinar on the increasing importance of clinicogenomic data, including diverse phenotypic and genotypic profiles.

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Maximize Your Real-World Data Strategy

Optum Life Sciences leaders break down common missteps when using RWD and how to create practical strategies to overcome them. Watch the video from STAT Summit.

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What if providers’ clinical data were research-ready?

Providers collect data about patients every day. But what should they be considering — and doing — to put their clinical data to good use?

 

 

Latest articles

Article

Reconcile your RWD expectations to maximize your investment

Understand how routine clinical practice impacts information captured in real-world data (RWD).

Article

What if providers’ clinical data were research-ready?

Providers collect data about patients every day. But what should they be considering — and doing — to put their clinical data to good use?

 

 

Latest case studies and testimonials

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Identifying patients' bone fracture risk

Optum Life Sciences experts used real-world data to assist in the testing of an algorithm designed to assess for osteoporosis risk.

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Improved Arkansas Medicaid Outcomes

Optum has completed more than 200K+ assessments in Arkansas, helping coordinate care for people with chronic, high-cost and long-term care needs.

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Improving SGLT2i therapy guideline adherence

A manufacturer worked with Optum Life Sciences to help increase guideline adherence for patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

 

 

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Partnering to reduce fraud, waste and abuse

We partner with federal agencies to address challenges and support their unique needs through technologies, solutions and best practices.

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Assess drug performance with integrated data

Explore real-world use cases to see how integrated data empowers research and commercial teams to compete in today’s crowded market.

 

 

Latest guides

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Real-world data centralized teams

Expanding the use of RWD requires expertise and leadership. Learn how to maximize the success of a centralized RWD team.

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Informing FDA best initiative

As a key FDA collaborator, Optum Epidemiology generates reproducible results that inform regulatory decisions for COVID-19 vaccines.

 

 

Latest on-demand webinars

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Increasing potential of genomic data

Hear from experts in this Endpoints News webinar on the increasing importance of clinicogenomic data, including diverse phenotypic and genotypic profiles.

On-demand webinar

How to maximize ROI real world data

Optum experts give a snapshot of commonly encountered pitfalls when using RWD and recommendations to help avoid them in this PMSA webinar.

 

 

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States achieve health equity with actionable analytics

By applying analytics solutions, states can create a comprehensive roadmap to better health equity.

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Real-world data centralized teams

Expanding the use of RWD requires expertise and leadership. Learn how to maximize the success of a centralized RWD team.

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NLP methods for RWD insights

Natural language processing (NLP) systems allow us to draw insights from billions of unstructured medical notes. Learn more about our methodology.

 

 

Latest videos

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Maximize Your Real-World Data Strategy

Optum Life Sciences leaders break down common missteps when using RWD and how to create practical strategies to overcome them. Watch the video from STAT Summit.

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Applying robotic process automation compliance

See how robotic process automation (RPA) helped saved 9,465 hours and $950,000 over five years in our client use case example.

  

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  • Making inroads with maternal health

    Learn how Indiana and Washington, D.C., are tackling critical maternal health equity disparities.

  • How real-world evidence can inform pharma strategies in 2025

    Health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) can play a key role in helping the life sciences industry improve patient outcomes.

  • Social determinants of health in urban America

    Learn more about addressing social determinants of health in Brooklyn, NY.

  • Which growth strategy path is right for you?

    Discover which growth strategy path is right for your health system.

  • Design an exceptional physician review strategy

    Optimize your physician review process to help save time, reduce costs and improve care quality.

  • CMS quality measure rules 2024

    Upcoming changes in federal quality measures for Medicaid and CHIP will impact state governments.

  • Reexamine the effect of the Inflation Reduction Act

    Learn how real-world data and evidence can help prepare you for healthcare-related Inflation Reduction Act policies.

  • DC maternal health homelessness

    Learn about our collaborative approach to promoting maternal health in Washington, D.C., with a focus on homelessness and perinatal care.

  • Healthier outcomes for moms and babies

    By using enterprise data to reach out to women earlier in pregnancy, one state is supporting moms and babies and creating healthier outcomes for both with help from Optum.

  • What if pragmatic clinical trials were more practical

    Pragmatic trials look increasingly attractive to researchers, but they’re tough to execute. Learn how to simplify the process.

  • Unlock clinical insights with NLP technology

    Learn about natural language processing (NLP) challenges and opportunities in the real-world data (RWD) space from Optum® NLP experts.

  • Supporting care for at-risk minors

    Learn about a lightweight, scalable foster-family placement system developed for one Northeastern state.

  • The fight for techquity

    Get ideas for how to fundamentally change your approach to building technology and incorporate techquity into your organization.

  • How states can serve members more holistically

    Lori Halpern and Dennis Vaughan discuss interoperability, helping communities address the growing mental health crisis and new ways of delivering care.

  • Reducing avoidable Medicaid claims denials

    In this GovTech.com interview with John Campbell of Optum State Government Solutions, see how the right technology can modernize the claims process.

  • Address the complexity of the claims process

    Read the interview for insights into how state leaders can reduce administrative cost and support collaboration with providers.

  • Strategies for incremental modernization

    States can build on a step-by-step approach to modernization, incrementally transforming the user experience without disruption.

  • Strategies to reduce administrative costs

    Strategies to fix payer-provider collaboration, streamline patient financial experience and apply AI technologies for better cost savings.

  • How VBC can work for manufacturers

    Value-based contracts can present challenges that must be overcome to bring gene therapies to market.

  • Generating new data voice to claim research

    Using our Voice-to-Claim® methodology to better understand the attitudes and behaviors of patients and physicians and their effects on cost and utilization.

  • Determining treatment safety for pregnancy and infants

    Studying the impact of treatments on pregnancy and infants can help patients, providers and pharmaceutical companies make key decisions.

  • New dimensions in life sciences research

    Proving the impact on clinical outcomes as well as costs.

  • Insomnia treatment research study

    Optum combined real-world data and primary research to create better understanding of insomnia and help create new treatments.

  • Monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety

    Discover insights from Dr. John Seeger’s recent participation at the Duke-Margolis Thirteenth Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop.