Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Improving newborn screening

Using patient data to better screen for, and look after, newborn babies with congenital hypothyroidism.
- Individual care
- Diagnosis
Working out who is at risk of cardiovascular disease

Using data to inform a risks assessment tool for cardiovascular disease
- Individual care
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
Disproving the link between the MMR vaccine and autism

Conclusively demonstrating that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism
- Individual care
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
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