Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Targeting back pain treatment to those most in need

Using patient data to stratify risk of long term disability.
- Individual care
Using GP records to learn more about the health of carers

Learning more about carers to ensure they get the support they need
- Planning
- Policy
Monitoring joint replacement surgery

Analysing registry data to improve performance and safety
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
Using social media to better understand rheumatoid arthritis

Understanding the real world experience of patients through online support group data
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
Assessing a new treatment for severe asthma

Evaluating the safety of a new treatment through real world clinical data
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
- Patient safety
Does pain get worse in bad weather?

Using smartphone data to analyse the potential relationship between weather and pain
- Understanding disease
Is there a link between asthma drugs and heart attacks?

Using GP data to assess the safety of a commonly prescribed asthma drug
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety