NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre – Digital Health
Introduction
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The multidisciplinary team consists of data engineers, data scientists, clinical and academic researchers that work collaboratively to deliver, facilitate and support research and innovation projects. The team lead the "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/paddington-life-sciences","target":"_blank","rel":"noopener noreferrer nofollow","class":null}}],"text":"Paddington Life Sciences"},{"type":"text","text":" Digital Collaboration Space at the centre of the Paddington innovation district."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The Digital Health theme has developed and built the ICHT hosted Secure Data Environment, this environment provides functionality across research types and hosts multiple linkable (with approval) data tenancies that host HRA REC ethically approved local and national research registries, deep granular multimodal acute data from ICHT and the other acute hospitals in NWL, linked longitudinal primary and secondary population health information on 2.8 million individuals who reside in North West London (Whole Systems Integrated Care), the London Analytics Platform (OneLondon regional secure data environment covering >10m population), consent for contact registers (IHKB & NWL Research Register) and linkable tissue sample."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The NIHR Imperial BRC also supports the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) within Imperial College London, linking the Imperial TRE to high performance compute across multiple healthcare datasets and research themes."}]},{"type":"bulletList","content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"iCARE hompage: "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research-and-impact/groups/icare/","target":"_blank","rel":"noopener noreferrer nofollow","class":null}}],"text":"iCARE | Faculty of Medicine | Imperial College London"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"iCARE bluesky: 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Centre"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Paddington Life Sciences: "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/paddington-life-sciences","target":"_blank","rel":"noopener noreferrer nofollow","class":null}}],"text":"Paddington Life Sciences"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Whole systems integrated care "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://www.nwlondonicb.nhs.uk/professionals/digital-and-it/whole-systems-integrated-care-wsic","target":"_blank","rel":"noopener noreferrer nofollow","class":null}}],"text":"Whole Systems Integrated Care (WSIC): North West London ICS"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"NWL Acute Provider Collaborative 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nofollow","class":null}}],"text":"Imperial Health Knowledge Bank (IHKB) – NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Onelondon "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://www.onelondon.online/","target":"_blank","rel":"noopener noreferrer nofollow","class":null}}],"text":"Homepage - OneLondon"}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"For general enquiries email: "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"mailto:imperial.dcs@nhs.net","target":"blank","rel":"noopener noreferrer nofollow","class":null}}],"text":"imperial.dcs@nhs.net"},{"type":"text","text":" "}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"For data access enquiries email: "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"mailto:imperial.dataaccessrequest@nhs.net","target":"blank","rel":"noopener noreferrer 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