Special issue of Frontiers in Digital Health. “This Research Topic brings together relevant articles around sensor-enabled, data-driven, and increasingly ubiquitous digital health. It contributes to…
The increasing integration of digital health technologies into everyday life marks a transformative shift in healthcare and prevention. Ubiquitous digital health systems include continuous monitoring…
Authors: Paige L McDonald, Tom J Foley, Robert Verheij, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Joshua Rubin, Kenneth Harwood, Jessica Phillips, Sarah Gilman, Philip J Van Der Wees Journal:…
The term ‘big data’ has been used increasingly in healthcare research in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Most definitions focus on its…
Meeting the multiple and often complex needs of families (children, young people and adults) within ‘Early Help’ support is dependent upon practitioners from different sectors…
This report maps the work of NHS Knowledge and Library Services teams nationally and locally onto the Learning Health System Framework. It is based on interviews,…
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…
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) generates uniquely rich data that should be rapidly deployed for policy and service improvement, yet researchers report difficulties in…
This report offers guidance for building a Learning Health System, focusing on tools, models and frameworks that might be helpful. However, it is not a…
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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:…
This publication assesses real world outcomes from data released through the Data Access Request Service (DARS). It looks at the impact data has had in health and care,…
This report has been prepared in support of the Topol Review. The findings are based on a series of expert one-to-one interviews, five expert focus…
By Denwood, Foley. 30 Years of Hospital Episode Statistics in England Website: https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/enabling-a-learning-health-system/
Accessibility of powerful computers and availability of so-called big data from a variety of sources means that data science approaches are becoming pervasive. However, their…
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…
Authors: Dr Tom Foley, Dr Neil Lawrence Date: 2018/9 Publisher: NHS Digital Description: We have a major role in handling data for health and social…
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…
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Ann Slee, ePrescribing Lead, Strategic Systems & Technology, Patients & Information, NHS England As well as her work with NHS England, Ann…
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 KCL Biomedical Informatics Group is a multidisciplinary group of informaticians, clinicians, psychologists and computer scientists, researching the role of data and…
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 CHI hosts the MRC Health eResearch Centre and leads research across a number of methodological disciplines, particularly health informatics, bioinformatics, biostatistics,…
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. In England, HES (Hospital Episode Statistics) data, collected by providers and collated by NHS Digital provides, demographic, diagnostic and intervention data for…