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As of August 2022, nearly 1,000 nursing homes have joined the , a novel electronic health record (EHR) infrastructure for residents in long-term care facilities.

Now, Ä¢¹½tv scientists, along with colleagues in academia and the public sector have to develop the largest assembly of EHR data on the nursing home population in the U.S. 

From the publication: "It is widely known that the evidence base supporting treatment decisions for older nursing home residents is scant  ... This resource has transformed geriatric pharmacoepidemiology, long-term care policy evaluations, and more recently facilitated large-scale cluster randomized trials of nursing home-based interventions."

The LTC Data Cooperative is a shared vision to transform nursing home care and was formed by Ä¢¹½tv, the National Institute on Aging, the American Health Care Association, and Brown University School of Public Health.

Initially developed to mitigate COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes, the LTC Data Cooperative now encompasses public health surveillance, healthcare operations, and research.