Portfolio Categories: Research Environment & Privacy by Design

Project ThemesAdministrative and social science Health & Social Care Genomics Geography Project Overview Free-text clinical data is a vast, untapped source of rich information to guide research and clinical care, that would clarify and supplement information coded in structured data fields, if it were more accessible. Generally, clinical data needs to be de-identified or anonymised...

Project ThemesAdministrative and social science Health & Social Care Genomics Geography Project Overview Over recent decades, major advances have been made in reusing health data for research. More recently work has focused on wider administrative data. But there are considerable challenges to be addressed before we can reap the full benefits of administrative data for...

Project ThemesAdministrative and social science Health & Social Care Genomics Geography Project Overview This project set out to consider issues of joint working and information sharing across the Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research. In 2018, the Farr Institute was replaced by Health Data Research UK (HDRUK), which - unlike the Farr Institute - has...

Project ThemesAdministrative and social science Health & Social Care Genomics Geography Project Overview Call detail records (CDRs) are collected by mobile network operators in the course of service provision and are increasingly being used in health research. We know that work is needed to show that CDRs can be used within an ethically-founded framework that...