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Authors:
Evgeniy Krastev
Petko Kovachev
Simeon Abanos
Dimitar Tcharaktchiev
Keywords: observational data; platform interoperability; Common Data Model; diabetes register; pharmacology cost analysis.
Abstract:
This paper demonstrates the potential of a standard common data model to facilitate access to observational data and extract knowledge. The common data model enables platform interoperability for computational health technologies allowing assessment of the burden caused by the pharmacology costs on the healthcare system. It helps understanding the trends and effects in using different classes of drugs for diabetes treatment by exploring clinical data from the Bulgarian diabetes register. Unlike most regularly published reports on diabetes prevalence, the research results are obtained from a population- based study rather than applying aggregated statistical estimates. The Bulgarian Diabetes Register is a public common data model implementation allowing to overcome platform interoperability problems. It contains the latest and complete dataset of outpatient records of 501,065 distinct patients with diabetes in Bulgaria in 2018. The pharmacology case study reports new results for better assessment of the cost burden created by prescribing drugs for diabetes. Two major groups of drugs are considered- drugs for treatment of diabetes and related comorbidities. Novel drug diabetes therapies are just evolving in 2018, while the Metformin prescriptions prevail significantly. The costs are evaluated both at patient-centric level and at high level in terms of cost distributions among the drug classes in each group. The results are graphically visualized, discussed and compared in relation to existing public sources.
Pages: 25 to 31
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023
Publication date: September 25, 2023
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4553
ISBN: 978-1-68558-112-1
Location: Porto, Portugal
Dates: from September 25, 2023 to September 29, 2023