Center of Pharmacoeconomics and Drug utilization research (CIRFF-Unina), University of Naples Federico II

CIRFF - Centro di Ricerca in Farmacoeconomia e Farmacoutilizzazione,Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II,is committed to research on health services and appropriateness of drug use. Since 2017 it has been appointed as Key Regional Structure for analysis on Regional Informative Health System (Decree n.276/2017). CIRFF has longstanding experience in health-related big data analysis and has achieved a high level of expertise about integrating many different data sources (administrative,pharmaceutical and hospital discharge data,clinical data from different third-party sources). Moreover,the Centre is supporting the use of these data in health care decision making. The Centre monitors pharmaceutical expenditure and utilization in Campania region (about 6 million of inhabitants),operating a Campania Region Data-Warehouse,called CaReDB (Campania Region Data Bank) containing ~1.2 billion records.