Despite enormous efforts at healthcare improvement, major challenges remain in achieving optimal outcomes, safety, cost, and value. This Element introduces the concept of learning health…
A Learning Health System is not a technical project. It is the evolution of an existing health system into one capable of learning from every…
By E. Bowton, J. R. Field, S. Wang, J. S. Schildcrout, S. L. Van Driest, J. T. Delaney, J. Cowan, et al Abstract The use…
By Tom Foley. Tom Foley, Senior Clinical Lead for Data at NHS Digital, writes about the power of data in health and social care. Website:…
By Denwood, Foley. 30 Years of Hospital Episode Statistics in England Website: https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/enabling-a-learning-health-system/
By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Neil Lawrence. We created a guide to the work that NHS Digital does with data and described this within the…
By Tom Foley. Linking routinely collected primary, secondary, social care data with that from a large cohort study, to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of different…
By Tom Foley. Anonymised GP, A&E and out of hours clinic records across Greater Manchester will be extracted, analysed and visualised so that GPs can…
By Tom Foley. The Carter Review1 identified unwarranted variation in running costs, sickness absence, infection rates and prices paid for supplies and services between providers.…
By Tom Foley. A collaboration to produce statistical models, powered by linked health, local authority and other data, that can be routinely used to produce…
By Tom Foley. Building a platform to link data between health, social care and other agencies, relating to families, across North East England, that have…
By Tom Foley. A collaboration between Manchester University, AHSN, local trusts, local authorities and the Greater Manchester Stroke Operational Delivery Network. Linking data from GP,…
By Tom Foley QSurveillance® is a clinical surveillance system based on data from 3,400 EMIS general practices spread throughout the UK. It is run as…
By Tom Foley. Linked de-identified data from the ambulance service, 111, hospital trusts and out of hours services across the Yorkshire and Humber region, is…
By Tom Foley. Using routinely collected health data, linked with social care and other data, to analyse alcohol care pathways in the North West. Making…
By Tom Foley. Combining health visitor and primary care records with schools based national child measurement service data and the “Born in Bradford dataset”, to…
By Tom Foley. Dr Clare Relton, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sheffield How do you define a Learning Health System? One that learns from…
By Tom Foley. Dr Ingrid Wolfe, Consultant in children’s public health medicine and Programme Director of Children and Young People’s Health Partnership (CYPHP) Background to…
By Tom Foley. Dr Afzal Chaudhry, Consultant Nephrologist, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Associate Lecturer, Cambridge University Hospitals In 2014, CUH became the first UK…
By Tom Foley. Luke Readman, Chief Information Officer, East London Learning Health System The use of data to drive improvement is central to the Learning…
By Tom Foley. In England, HES (Hospital Episode Statistics) data, collected by providers and collated by NHS Digital provides, demographic, diagnostic and intervention data for…
By Tom Foley. The Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) is a governmental, not-for-profit research service, jointly funded by the NHS National Institute for Health Research…
By Tom Foley. QRESEARCH is a large consolidated database derived from the pseudonymised health records of over 24 million patients. The data currently come from…
By Tom Foley. Datawell is an informatics platform designed to enable health data to be shared and Linked across Greater Manchester. In time, it is…
By Tom Foley. A regional shared record system for the North East of England and Cumbria. This currently consists of an implementation of the Medical…
By Tom Foley. A patient record exchange that appears to be focused on enabling records to be viewed across different providers within the region. Only…
By Tom Foley. Supported and run by South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit, this system has been operational for over 10 years. It allows…
By Tom Foley. Doncaster CCG plans to launch this system in Summer 2017. It will allow sharing of records across community, acute, mental health, and…
By Tom Foley. IHS is a health improvement institute that has traditionally been underpinned by, Health Economics, Health Psychology, Medical Sociology and Health Technology Evaluation…
By Tom Foley. The CHI hosts the MRC Health eResearch Centre and leads research across a number of methodological disciplines, particularly health informatics, bioinformatics, biostatistics,…
By Tom Foley. Researchers within the centres have expertise including surgery, medicine, pharmacy, infection prevention, psychology, economic evaluation, technological innovation, organisational development and patient involvement.…
By Tom Foley. The KCL Biomedical Informatics Group is a multidisciplinary group of informaticians, clinicians, psychologists and computer scientists, researching the role of data and…
By Tom Foley. CIPHER undertakes research that covers both observational and interventional research across all disease areas with an emphasis on methodological innovation and development…
By Tom Foley. The Farr Institute at Edinburgh is collaborating with Asthma UK to build a LHS for Asthma. There is currently limited information available…
By Tom Foley. Dr Amitava Banerjee, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Data Science and Honorary Consultant inCardiology at the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Head of…
By Tom Foley. NHS England is establishing a Learning Network to encourage GDEs to share learning but also to collaborate on developing common solutions, so…
By Tom Foley. Data sharing within Connected Health Cities will require the building of public trust, so that the population understand and consent to the…
By Tom Foley. There are 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) across England, established by NHS England in 2013 to spread innovation at pace and…
By Tom Foley. Plans are underway to create a virtual organisation that will provide a unique training and development opportunity for Chief Clinical Information Officers…
By Tom Foley. Work is underway to establish the FMI, this aims to overcome problems currently faced by doctors with an interest in informatics: no…
By Tom Foley. The Farr Institute is a UK-wide research collaboration involving 21 academic institutions and health partners in England, Scotland and Wales. Publically funded…
By Tom Foley. Ann Slee, ePrescribing Lead, Strategic Systems & Technology, Patients & Information, NHS England As well as her work with NHS England, Ann…
By Tom Foley. MRC will invest £37.5m over 5 years to establish an independent UK Institute for Health and Biomedical Informatics Research (Farr 2). Additional…
By Tom Foley. NIHR is funded by DH, to drive research from bench to bedside for the benefit of patients. It supports a wide range…
By Tom Foley. EPSRC is the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences. Health is a significant…
By Tom Foley. The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation that supports scientists and researchers to take on big questions in population health, medical…
By Tom Foley. THF is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health for people in the UK. It aims to improve health service…
By Tom Foley. Innovate UK is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. They work with people,…
By Tom Foley. Charities such as Cancer Research UK, MQ Mental Health and Asthma UK have significant disease specific research funding programmes and are collaborators…
By Tom Foley. The EU Commission has funded LHS research projects of varying scales. The TRANSFoRm project outlined above received over €7.5m from the EU…