Health Informatics


Farr Conference 2015

Alison Bell, Lead Data Scientist
This was my fourth time at the Farr Conference (previously the SHIP conference). I look forward to it as it’s always packed …



Beauty in Simplicity – Visualising Large-scale Genomic Data

If you’ve spent any time looking into the visualisation of large-scale genomic data then you’ve probably encountered Circos, a visualisation tool developed for displaying and …



Using Data to Improve Diabetes Care

Summary
Large population data analysis provides useful clinical feedback to healthcare providers and national organisations, which aids the wider communication and understanding about changing healthcare demographics. …



The Use of Run Charts in Health Informatics

What is a run chart?
Run charts are used in analytics to identify and display trends in data over time. Plotting a run chart can determine …



Application Development Roadmap (& Journey)

As Head of Engineering  and app development lead at Aridhia Informatics, I’m always interested in learning from the community and promoting great content when I …



WELC Data Challenge Day

On 9th September 2014, something very exciting happened in healthcare. AnalytiXagility hosted one of the largest NHS data exploration events to date at the WELC …



Risk Stratification and Hospital Readmission Rates

Summary
Hospital readmission rates are often used as a proxy measure of how effectively healthcare is being delivered within a population. Targeting interventions at individuals at …



A Day in the Life of a Collaborative Data Science platform

I’ve been working with diverse data sets for the last four months using Aridhia’s collaborative data science platform, AnalytiXagility.
This week the platform took centre stage …



Genomics and the NHS Clinic

In 2012, the Human Genomics Strategy Group had already highlighted the need to develop a workforce skilled in genomics in the NHS, the changing R&D …