PIONEER improves patient care by making routinely-collected health data available to doctors, researchers and academics, under licence. With robust governance and ethics in place, this data can then be used to develop new methods of predicting, diagnosing and monitoring illness in hospital and at home; improving treatment choice and identifying new ways of delivering clinical care.
Working with University Hospitals Birmingham, through the HDR UK supported PIONEER Data Hub, this course will give participants from across the UK an insight into the potential and challenges of real-world health data, and practical experience of working with health data. It will highlight the significant data engineering efforts that underlie the provision of research-ready data and the use of a modern secure computing environment that is the emerging standard for accessing UK health data.