title: Secondary Use of Claims Data from the Austrian Health Insurance System with i2b2: A Pilot Study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In conformity with increasing international efforts to reuse routine health data for scientific purposes, the Main Association of Austrian Social Security Organisations provides pseudonymized claims data of the Austrian health care system for clinical research.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We aimed to examine, whether an integration of the corresponding database into i2b2 would be possible and provide benefits.
  
  
  METHODS
  We applied docker-based software containers and data transformations to set up the system. To assess the benefits of i2b2 we plan to reenact the task of cohort formation of an earlier research project.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The claims database was successfully integrated into i2b2. The docker-based installation approach will be published as git repository. The assessment of i2b2's benefits is currently work in progress and will be presented at the conference.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Docker enables a flexible, reproducible, and resource-efficient installation of i2b2 within the restricted environment implied by our highly secured target system. First preliminary tests indicated several potential benefits of i2b2 compared to the methods applied during the earlier research project.
authors.affiliation: Vienna University of Technology.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Endel
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Vienna, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems.
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Duftschmid
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012984:Software