FAA Office of Aerospace Medicine 
Civil Aerospace Medical Institute 

Report No: DOT/FAA/AM-23/15

Title and Subtitle: Integrating Commercial Healthcare Datasets for Aeromedical Risk Analyses

Report Date: May 31, 2023

Authors:I. Lisann; J. O’Connor; S. Roessner

Abstract:The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Aerospace Medicine requires comprehensive longitudinal healthcare datasets to augment internal data for the purpose of conducting safety risk assessments to update medical standards (i.e. data dirven, risk based decision making). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) tasked The MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (MITRE CAASD), in its Innovation Partner role, to identify commercial healthcare datasets that hold potential value in forecasting medical risk and are suitable for integration into the Aeromedical Data Environment. MITRE CAASD performed a market survey of existing healthcare datasets available commercially or for public use. This market survey led to the identification of over 40 healthcare data sources, many of which contain numerous subordinate sets. An initial set of screening criteria ensured that candidate data sources were sufficiently suitable for modeling objectives; this screening reduced the set to three final candidate data sources. These three data sources were compared using a set of features relevant to risk modeling of aeromedically relevant outcomes by condition. This set of comparison features included their coverage of medical conditions of interest to the FAA, as well as factors impacting integration into the aeromedical data environment.

Key Words: Aviation, Certification, Medicine, Pilot, Safety

No. of Pages: 07