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Opinion

Health data science, The Matrix and sushi

15 October 2019

Guest Blog: Dr Michael Inouye

Opinion

Diversity makes teams stronger

11 October 2019

Guest Blog for Women in Tech Week: Dr Helen Parkinson, Head of Molecular Archival Resources at EMBL-EBI and Oana Stroe

HDR UK event

Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records

8 November 2019 at 10:30 am

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are regarded as the gold standard for assessing causal effects of treatments on health outcomes. However, RCTs are not always feasible, because of time, budget...

External event

Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions

3 December 2019 at 12:00 am

Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GL

DHIs are interventions delivered via digital technologies (such as websites, smartphones, emails or text messaging) to improve health and healthcare. The workshop is funded by the MRC Network of...

News announcement

Millions of patients to benefit from £10M national cardiovascular data science centre

2 October 2019

British Heart Foundation and Health Data Research UK announce Director of ground-breaking new centre aiming to link health data to save and improve lives

News story

Health Data Research UK Celebrates 100th Open Access Publication

26 September 2019

Health Data Research UK reached an important milestone this month – our 100th publication was made open access.

HDR UK publication

Educational and Health Outcomes of Children Treated for Type 1 Diabetes: Scotland-Wide Record Linkage Study of 766,047 Children

26 September 2019

Fleming M, Fitton CA, Steiner MFC, McLay JS, Clark D, King A, Lindsay RS, Mackay DF, Pell JP. Diabetes Care (2019) 42(9): 1700-1707 OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine the association...

HDR UK publication

Association between beta-blocker use and mortality/morbidity in older patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction A propensity score-matched analysis from the Swedish Heart Failure Registry

26 September 2019

Davide Stolfo, Alicia Uijl, Lina Benson, Benedikt Schrage ,Marat Fudim, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Stefan Koudstaal, Gianfranco Sinagra, Ulf Dahlstrom, Giuseppe Rosano, Gianluigi Savarese. European...

HDR UK publication

A validated natural language processing algorithm for brain imaging phenotypes from radiology reports in UK electronic health records

9 September 2019

Wheater E, Mair G, Sudlow C, Alex B, Grover C, Whiteley W. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2019) 19:184 BACKGROUND Manual coding of phenotypes in brain radiology reports is time...