OBJECTIVES: Due to the heterogeneous health care environment in Austria, data about procedures performed in outpatient clinics, ambulatories and in the outpatient sector have not been collected in a standardized language. However, this data is crucial for planning processes and health services provision. Therefore, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Austrian Social Security and 3 of 9 Federal States initiated a pilot project to collect this data and make it available for evaluation and planning processes in a standardized language according to CAP (Catalog for ambulatory procedures). METHODS: The data will be transferred into a new database in two data streams to ensure data protection. Data about the patient containing sex, age and other characteristics will be sent in a pseudonomyzed way in one data stream. Another will contain data about the procedures according to CAP and information about contract physicians, outpatient clinics and ambulatories. RESULTS: The new database will offer information about what until now has been more or less a black spot. It will give information about procedures performed in the ambulatory and outpatient sector for all stakeholders participating in this pilot project. CONCLUSION Data about outpatient clinics and ambulatories have not been made accessible in one database for all participating stakeholders in a standardized language until now. The initiated pilot project and the database created therewith offer an opportunity to cover this lack of information.