HIC impact case studies
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.
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Cerebral Palsy Integrated Pathways (CPIP) is a system developed by a group of children’s orthopaedic surgeons and physiotherapists from all regions of Scotland
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Alleviate, the APDP Pain Research Data Hub, 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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Childsmile is a national health improvement programme focused on reducing oral health inequalities among children in Scotland
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InterdisciPlInary Collaboration for efficienT and effective Use of clinical images in big data healthcare RESearch
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The Pharmacovigilance Tracker is a web-based software built to streamline the SAE reporting process to improve efficiency without risk to safety
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SATRE was developed to create a standardised framework for safe, well-governed data use within TREs, including best practice on how to design, operate and use a TRE.
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Follow-COVID project, led by Dr David Connell at the University of Dundee, investigated long-term health impacts on patients who experienced severe illness