Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Tackling preventable asthma deaths

Targeting interventions at children at high risk of asthma attacks
- Treatment and prevention
Mobile health approaches for asthma

Evaluating the effectiveness of a new 'smart inhaler'
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
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
The impact of air pollution on health

Using pan-European data to understand how air pollution affects health
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
A tragic case of data mismanagement

Not linking data contributed to a lack of understanding of a patient's deteriorating health
- Individual care
- Patient safety
Living with Multiple Sclerosis

Collecting self reported data to better understand the lives of people with MS
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
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
Improving treatments for COPD

Real-time monitoring of a new treatment for COPD in Salford
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention