Learning health systems

Learning health systems aim to 'realise the vision of a continuously learning NHS'. This includes: defining, structuring, creating and reusing data and knowledge; enhancing randomised controlled trials through EHRs; promoting safe, efficient and effective health and social care; and integrating research, education and clinical practice into improving healthcare.  

Our projects

• Breaking records: Using health records to explore antibiotic prescribing practice
• Cognitive workload of health technologies
• Development of a high throughput gene, environment and epigenetics database and analysis system for international ALS research
• Infection Response through Virus genomics (ICONIC)
• International comparisons of 'big' health record data: application to cardiovascular diseases
• Large scale omics data integration for biomarker discovery, drug repositioning and screening for new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease
• 'Nothing about us, without us.' Involvement of Experts by Experience in Homeless and Inclusion Health Research
• Real-time detection of influenza outbreaks in hospitals: demonstrating infection response through virus genomics (ICONIC)
• The prescription-persistence cascade in cardiovascular disease-an opportunity for big data research