# NIA AD/ADRD Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory

> **NIH NIH U54** · BROWN UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $199,652

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory COVID related supplement that funded the Long Term
Care Data Cooperative [U54AG063546-02S6] established a cooperative that is
compiling a centralized repository of nursing home electronic medical record (EMR)
data from three different EMR vendors. Numerous nursing home companies using one
of these three vendors have signed up as members, authorizing their EMR vendor to
transfer clinically relevant data, complete with identifiers, to a centralized repository
operating under the auspices of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) a
membership association of most US nursing homes [https://www.ahcancal.org/Data-
and-Research/Pages/LTC-Data-Cooperative.aspx]. In addition to the regulatory
required Minimum Data Set information, EMR data being consolidated include all
prevalent and incident diagnoses, orders, medication administration records, change of
condition records, daily vital signs, incident reports, vaccinations, behavior tracking,
daily changes in cognitive and physical functioning, and for some facilities, laboratory
and diagnostic test results.
To facilitate use of these data for the purpose of conducting public health surveillance,
in close collaboration with leadership and research analysts at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Brown University investigators propose to Investigate the
validity of infection data in the nursing home EMR by exploring the viability of using the
EMR data to identify two infectious conditions among nursing home residents. These
will be selected in consultation with CDC officials and could range from the occurrence
of SARS-CoV-2 and other pulmonary viruses to other common conditions like C-Difficile
with the goal of creating indicators of the incidence of each type of infection that
appears valid and reliably detected.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10670536
- **Project number:** 3U54AG063546-04S2
- **Recipient organization:** BROWN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** SUSAN L MITCHELL
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $199,652
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2019-09-01 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10670536

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10670536, NIA AD/ADRD Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory (3U54AG063546-04S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10670536. Licensed CC0.

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