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Metformin is a commonly used diabetes drug that is also thought to benefit people who have heart failure. Researchers studied large-scale health records to understand the impact of diabetes...
Electronic health records represent a treasure trove of data to help improve care, but their unstructured nature makes them difficult to analyse. Researchers from UCL report on views from...
Diabetes is not only a major health problem in itself, but it also increases the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease. Researchers have used national healthcare records to identify the...
Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, efforts to reduce cases have been hampered by its complex relationship with other medical conditions and risk factors. New...
Overview Case notes and other texts written by clinicians are an invaluable source of data about disease and treatment. This study presents new thinking on how they can be analysed to gain greater...
Overview Phenotyping algorithms are special tools that enable researchers to extract information such as diagnoses, drug prescriptions and laboratory test values from complex, and often messy data...
Phenotype libraries aim to provide the disease definitions researchers need to extract data from electronic health records (EHRs). But the phenotype definitions they hold are often in different...
New features and functionality enhance quality and reproducibility of research using electronic health records
Roger has a research informatics background and brings experience of building research Phenotype data sets from clinical and laboratory data. At the University of Cambridge working on the 100K...
