The HDR Innovation Gateway Newsletter  

November 2022

Welcome to the growing community of Gateway users accessing the UK’s unified platform to search, discover and request access to health data sets for research and innovation.

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Spotlight on Discover-NOW

Discover-NOW aims to revolutionise the way health data is used responsibly for research into treating and preventing disease.

Discover-NOW is the Health Data Research Hub for Real World Evidence, bringing together NHS organisations, globally recognised academic, industry, technology, research and charity partners as well as patients and the public.

• Discover-NOW is led by Imperial College Health Partners and supports clinicians, researchers and scientists.
• Discover-NOW is supported by a Citizens Advisory Group in their approach to patient and public involvement. 
• Discover-NOW is one of the largest deidentified datasets in Europe - across a population of 2.5million, safe and secure within in a trusted data environment. 
  

Missed October's webinar? The recording is now available

We were joined by two charitable organisations - the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre and the Brain Tumour Charity - to learn more about how they're utilising and investing in the power of health data science to progress research. Access the recording, slides and the questions we didn't have time to cover in the session itself, here. 

Gateway Collection of the Month

Collections are curated around a particular theme or topic and bring together related resources such as datasets, papers, tools and data uses listed on the Gateway.

Following on from October's Data Access and Discovery webinar, the Gateway Collection of the Month for November is: Datasets from across the charity sector 

Latest datasets published on the Gateway 

We recently added three new datasets to the Gateway:  

• The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s dataset - a longitudinal study from 12,150 participants born in Aberdeen between 1950 and 1956 and still ongoing - from the Grampian Data Safe Haven.
• The South East Scotland Cancer Database added by DataLoch. The database holds data on diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of patients undergoing care within the region.
• The Antiviral Dataset from SAIL Databank containing details of antiviral and monoclonal antibody drugs prescribed to patients to treat Covid-19 

Register for an account on the Gateway

Anyone can search and view datasets, collections and other resources with or without an account, but signing up to the Gateway means you can also:

• Send enquiries and apply to access datasets
• Comment on Gateway resources, including datasets 
• Add you own resources like tools and data uses, and create collections
• Apply to access advanced search methods like Cohort Discovery
  

Did you know that there are five ways you can sign up to the Gateway? Via LinkedIn, Google, ORCiD, Microsoft and through your institution. 

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