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Professor Andrew Morris
1. The Farr Institute
Who we are and how to Engage
Andrew Morris on behalf of the Farr team
11th February 2015
2. “To harness health data for patient and
public benefit by setting the international
standard in trustworthy reuse of electronic
patient records and related linkable data
for large-scale research.”
Our Vision
3. • A research collaboration that integrates and scales, at the UK
level, the work of four Health Informatics Research Centres
• Aims to provide
– Physical and electronic infrastructure
– Support partnership by co-locating NHS organisations, industry, and
other UK academic centres
– Facilitate collaboration, the sharing of datasets, and the adoption
of common standards
– Develop new opportunities for future linkage and analysis of data at
scale
The Farr Institute
4. William Farr
“Diseases are more
easily prevented than
cured and the first
step to their
prevention is the
discovery of their
exciting causes”
5. UCL Partners
UCL, LSHTM, Queen Mary,
Public Health England
Scotland
Dundee, Glasgow,
Edinburgh, St Andrews,
Aberdeen, Strathclyde,
MRC HGU, NHS NSS
CIPHER
Swansea, Bristol, Cardiff,
Exeter, Leicester, Sussex,
NWIS, Public Health Wales
HeRC N8
Manchester, York,
Lancaster, Liverpool,
Sheffield, Newcastle,
Bradford, AHSNs
Health Informatics Research Centres
6. • Iain Buchan
• Harry Hemingway
• Ronan Lyons
• Andrew Morris
The Farr People (1)
7. • John Ainsworth
• David Ford
• Jill Pell
• Liam Smeeth
The Farr People(2)
8. Five Key Areas of £20M Capital
Spend to create a distributed Institute
• Physical centres
• Safe havens
• Digital e-infrastructure
• New data access
• Communications
9. Capital Spend
5M Capital Fund
Farr@Dundee Building Refurb
Farr@Scotland
Edinburgh Bioquarter, 7 year lease
Enabling 3
New National Datasets –
Imaging data; Lab data;
GP data
Private Cloud
HPC Infrastructure
Telepresence Suites
10. • Co-located with the Farr Institute in
– Scotland
– London
– Swansea
• Expertise in Admin data, public engagement, data linkage, law
and computer science
• As well as having a research and enabling function the ADRN
(unlike Farr) is funded to be a service provider to social and
economic researchers.
Farr and the ADRN
11. Maternity
BIRTH DEATH
Neonatal Record
Child health surveillance Immunisation
GP consultations
Dental Out patients
A&E
Hospital Admissions
Mental Health
Prescribing
Screening
Community care
Cancer registrations
Suicide
Imaging Laboratory
Substance misuse
National level data resources
Education
Looked after children Community care
Care homes
BIRTH
Marriage
DEATH
HMRC DWP Census
(Scotland & UK)
13. • Farr @ Manchester • Farr @ Liverpool
The Farr Buildings- HeRC
Historic buildings transformed into
health data science hubs
at the centres of two
biomedical campuses
16. The Farr is but one of many key
Investments in Informatics Research
DH – Leading the nation’s health and care
Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre
18. • Trustworthy Use of Data
– Public participation and support
– Proportionate Governance
• Reduce complexity and duplication
– Standardisation
– Harmonisation
• Collaboration at Scale
– Making cross-centre working easy
– Federated Meta-analyses
– Managing the (healthy!) tension between collaboration and competition
• Buy-in
– Thousands of NHS entities
• Capacity Building
– CEBR estimate 58,000 data scientists by 2017; worth £216B to economy
• Industry Engagement that is real
– Business models and transparent rules of engagement and benefit sharing
Our Challenge is to deliver studies of 65
million people
19. Strengthen the UK’s capability in health
informatics research by building, co-ordinating,
and strengthening partnerships across the UK
and fostering a culture of data sharing
Vision
20. • Ed Conley
• Georgina Evans
• Catharine Goddard
• Cherry Martin
UK HIRN Team
22. Goal:
• Enhance the contribution that the Network
makes to society
• Embed the values of public engagement within
the Network
• Promote opportunities for dialogue and mutual
learning
1. Public Engagement
23. Goal:
• Address shortage of multi-disciplinary skills for
health informatics and data science research
2. Capacity Building
24. • 34 cohorts
• 2.5m people have taken part
and currently around 2.2m
people – 3.5% of the population
– are cohort members.
• We owe them a debt of
gratitude
• 500,000 people are part of UK
Biobank and soon the entire
cohort will be genotyped.
• Participants from the UK cohort
studies have given consent for
their personal data to be linked
to NHS records and other data
sources such as education and
the census
Adding Value to
UK Cohort Studies
25. Goal:
• Maximise benefits from UK investment in major
cohorts through development of standardised
and efficient approaches to linkage to routine
data sources
• Promote exploitation of the linked data by the
UK research community.
3. Cohort Study Linkage
26. Goal:
• Develop innovative methods for large-scale
analysis of health and non-health related
datasets
• College of Experts
4. Methodology Research
27. Goal:
• To raise awareness of information governance
challenges and concerns
• To help shape and disseminate best practice
• To provide expert input and support to policy
makers into the trustworthy re-use of linked
health data for large-scale research
5. Best Practice in Governance
29. Goal:
• Foster a sense of collaboration, transparency,
accountability, and commitment towards a
common vision among stakeholders
• Get things done!
6. Communications
30. Goal:
• Ensure a sustainable informatics research base for
the UK.
• Collaborate and learn from other disciplines
including economics, social sciences
• Key developments across the UK – MedBio Centres
TSB/UKTI/HSCIC/CPRD/GeL, Innovation Centres
• Improve the interface between higher education
institutions and industry
7. Partnership Building
31. The need to look outwards
• 170 organisations 32
countries
• An international
coalition, formed to
enable the sharing of
genomic and clinical
data.
• Aim is to combine
genomic and clinical
information across
diseases, organizations,
methods, and even
countries.
32. Digital Health Assembly: Open Innovation,
10-12 Feb 2015, Cardiff
A three-day international digital health conference to share
insight and experiences of Open Innovation in healthcare
focussing on the themes of:
Empowering Patients and Staff
Innovative Business Models
Big Data
33. The conference is designed for researchers, practitioners and policy
makers interested in record linkage and the use of routine health
data in their research. Themes include:
Cohort Study Linkage
Research Methodology
Best Practice in Governance
Public Engagement
Stratified Medicine
Clinical Trials Methodology and Execution
Open Innovation using Data Analytics
Data Linkage to Support Policy Development
Farr Institute’s First International Conference,
26-28 Aug2015, St Andrews, Scotland
35. • Ed Conley
• Georgina Evans
• Catharine Goddard
• Cherry Martin
UK HIRN Team
36. Summary
• Welcome to the Farr Institute and
Network!
• Opportunities for outstanding research
• Inclusive and Collaborative
• Opportunities for international
collaboration
• Partnerships with Industry a priority
www.farrinstitute.org
Andrew.morris@ed.ac.uk