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The role of health data in restart and recovery

Our Director Liz Sapey reflects on the significant contributions that health data has made to the UK’s pandemic response, and the impact data will have

24 May 2021 No Comments

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News and blogs

Partnering with PIONEER – AHSN webinar

Ralph Evans, Commercial and Partnerships Lead for PIONEER Hub, recently joined a webinar exploring the opportunities and benefits that Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)

6 May 2021 No Comments

Celebrating 18 months of transforming the health data landscape

Since launching in October 2019, PIONEER as one of seven Health Data Research Hubs has demonstrated that our uniquely collaborative, cross-sector and fast-paced method of

29 April 2021 No Comments

Asian female doctor in medical mask examining and pointing to radiological chest X-ray film on monitor computer while talking with Elderly woman patient at hospital room

Project summaries

Supporting clinicians diagnose and assess the severity of Covid-19 using Artificial Intelligence and Chest X-rays

Aims To use artificial intelligence to support frontline clinicians interpreting chest radiographs (CXR) as a way to diagnose Covid-19 and predict the likely outcomes for

26 April 2021 No Comments

PIONEER and the Health Data Research Hubs – the story so far

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) has today published Improving UK Health Data: Impacts from Health Data Research Hubs – a compelling report setting out

22 April 2021 No Comments

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Project summaries

An assessment of whether ventilation strategies and clinical care pathways on High Dependency and Intensive Care Units changed during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic for patients admitted with Covid-19 related respiratory failure

Aims To understand how practices of care and patient characteristics changed over the different waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, to determine the most effective treatments

20 April 2021 No Comments

3d rendered image showing the placement of the lungs in the human body. the illustration shows the trachea, right and left bronchus and bronchioles

Project summaries

Assessing impact of Covid-19 on patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Aims To better understand how the pandemic has affected patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), with or without Covid-19, admitted to hospital and using

19 April 2021 No Comments

An ultrasound is performed on a pregnant woman's abdomen

Project summaries

An exploration of the number and reason for pregnant and newly postnatal women’s attendance at the Emergency Department at University Hospital Birmingham

Aims To better understand the reasons that pregnant women and new mothers attend the Emergency Department (ED) and determine whether they could benefit from being

16 April 2021 No Comments

An older female patient lies in a hospital bed wearing an oxygen mask

Project summaries

A study in to the use of machine learning techniques in supporting clinical decision-making in community-acquired pneumonia

Aims In this project, we plan to use to PIONEER data to: Investigate whether a new approach to data analysis can be used to support

14 April 2021 No Comments

Infrastructure and operating processes of PIONEER and the workings of the Data Trust Committee: a protocol paper

Introduction Health Data Research UK designated seven UK-based Hubs to facilitate health data use for research. PIONEER is the Hub in Acute Care. PIONEER delivered

13 April 2021 No Comments

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