Bruno Petrungaro, ICHP’s Health Economics Modeller, explains how all too often healthcare questions are answered in association terms when looking for causal answers. There is a well-known principle in statistics that tells us that correlation does not imply causation. Yet when questions are asked in healthcare, they are often phrased in terms of causation butRead more
Ralphael Oghagbon, ICHP Health Economist, outlines the results of a pilot looking at how primary care teams can join the digital revolution to improve patient care. Even before the coronavirus pandemic forced businesses across the country to introduce new ways of working that reduce face-to-face contact, North West London (NWL) CCG and a number ofRead more
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) are proud to be part of a bid-winning team for a cutting-edge study to test and implement a new way of diagnosing clinically important prostate cancer using artificial intelligence (AI). The study is one of a number of winners of the AI in Health and Care Award, announced by SecretaryRead more
ICHP has worked with partners to publish a guide to population segmentation analysis, one of the key strands making up population health management (PHM). Deputy Director of Business Intelligence Andi Orlowski explains the importance of segmentation and PHM to integrated care systems across the UK and how they can help keep people healthy for longer.Read more
Data specialists at Imperial College Health Partners will receive funding of up to £400,000 over two years to join a national network of experts who are working to address some of the biggest challenges facing health and care services today, both nationally and in north west London. The Networked Data Lab, created by the independentRead more
The National Evaluation System for health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc), an initiative of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), today announced NorthWest EHealth (NWEH) and Discover-NOW, the Health Data Research Hub for Real World Evidence, as its newest Network Collaborator partnership and first international addition to its Research Network. The NESTcc Research Network is comprisedRead more
Digital products and services are providing vital innovation, support and capacity to the NHS response to COVID-19 and the health and social care challenges ahead. The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme is looking for the latest digital health SMEs that are ready to transform the NHS and social care in London. Now in its fifth consecutive year,Read more
Discover-NOW, the Health Data Research Hub for Real World Evidence, welcomes the impressive depth of insight into public expectations on the use of health and care data published today in Public deliberation in the use of health and care data. As one of the UK’s seven Health Data Research Hubs, the findings from this large-scaleRead more
Londoners have set a clear mandate to health and care leaders for how they expect their data to be used, with strong endorsement for joining-up health and care data to support individual care as well as proactive care, service planning and research as long as certain conditions are in place. In receiving the detailed recommendations, formed through the OneLondon Citizens’ Summit, nationalRead more
Discover-NOW, the Health Data Research Hub for Real World Evidence, are proud to announce we are collaborating globally to harness real-world data research to help inform the international response to the COVID-19 emergency. Through our partnership with NorthWest EHealth the Hub are joining nearly 50 organisations participating together in the the COVID-19 Diagnostics Evidence Accelerator, aRead more
