HIC impact case studies

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At the Health Informatics Centre (HIC), we support research through secure, high-quality services. Our work helps drive innovation in healthcare, improves public health, and inform policy.

These Impact Case Studies highlight the benefits of our collaborations with researchers, healthcare providers, and industry partners. They show how HIC’s expertise in secure data linkage and access, infrastructure and software development has supported important discoveries and practical improvements in health and care.

Collaborative project

Alleviate, the APDP Pain Research Data Hub, part of the Advanced Pain Discovery Platform, is transforming UK pain datasets to be FAIR and providing data expertise to enable better analysis and ultimately improve the lives of people with chronic pain, as part of a larger national research initiative

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View Alleviate Pain Data Hub

Collaborative project

Childsmile is a national health improvement programme focused on reducing oral health inequalities among children in Scotland

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Collaborative project

InterdisciPlInary Collaboration for efficienT and effective Use of clinical images in big data healthcare RESearch

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