Speakers:
Kathy Harrison, DataLoch programme manager, Usher Institute.
Atul Anand, DataLoch clinical lead, Centre for Cardiovascular Science.
Abstract:
The NHS in Scotland
is facing the prospect of an aging population with more people with long-term
conditions, with reducing resources and value for money challenges such as
increasing costs of medicine and delayed discharge. DataLoch’s ambition is to
create a health and social care data resource that enables a data driven
approach to this challenge, supporting service managers, innovators and
researchers to understand and deliver the change that’s needed. Routine data,
processed to create a single longitudinal data set, will present a complete
story of a patient’s health, diagnosis, treatments, medical procedures and
outcomes. In this way, DataLoch will enable high quality research through slick
and robust data access. The DataLoch service has been tested with an initial
COVID-19 dataset and is now moving to a condition agnostic database structure
to support wider research interests.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/dataloch