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
Targeting back pain treatment to those most in need

Using patient data to stratify risk of long term disability.
- Individual care
Supporting research into rare kidney disease

Using registry data to search for treatments for rare diseases
- Individual care
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
Improving dialysis treatment in the UK

Linking data to analyse kidney patients' treatment
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Planning services for people living with and beyond cancer

Using patient data to look at what happens to someone after receiving a cancer diagnosis
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Mobile health approaches for asthma

Evaluating the effectiveness of a new 'smart inhaler'
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
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
Prescribing statins to men without a history of heart attacks

Demonstrating the health and cost benefits of statin use
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
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
Improving treatments for COPD

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