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Aridhia’s Digital Research Service Supporting Data Controllers with their GDPR Obligations ➜
If research institutions and collaborations haven’t already, we’re sure many are now turning their attention to understanding their obligations, as data controllers, under the General ... Read more ➜
Enabling digital transformation and clinical innovation at Great Ormond Street Hospital: state of the art, data-driven research ➜
Over the last month, Aridhia has been enabling researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) leverage their Research and Innovation Platform, powered by the Ecosystem ... Read more ➜
R for Researchers: 8 essential cheatsheets for research data analysis ➜
Hi, and welcome back to the final instalment in my series looking at using R for research and the wealth of resources that are available ... Read more ➜
R for Researchers: working with R in AnalytiXagility ➜
Welcome to the second blog in my series looking at using the R programming language as a researcher, and how it can enhance the productivity ... Read more ➜
R for Researchers: practical data analysis in AnalytiXagility ➜
Welcome to the first blog in a series looking at using the R programming language within AnalytiXagility as a researcher, why it’s a good idea, ... Read more ➜
Upgrade your AnalytiXagility mini-apps by creating animated time series charts with dygraphs and htmlwidgets ➜
Expanding on my previous blogs on creating personalised and custom UI elements and widgets in Shiny – the technology on which we’ve built our mini-apps ... Read more ➜
Building trust and improving participation in clinical trials using innovative electronic data capture platforms ➜
Having worked with a number of Electronic Data Capture (EDC) platforms, including Oracle Inform and iMedidata Rave, I have considerable experience of the bugs and ... Read more ➜
GA4GH Federated Analysis Proof of Concept ➜
A recent proof of concept aimed at providing insight into the potential power of federated analysis of genomics data saw Aridhia team up with several ... Read more ➜
Interactively visualising DICOM volumes and header data ➜
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is an internationally recognised standard for medical imaging and is implemented in the majority of medical imaging devices ... Read more ➜
The sky is not the limit – embedding raw HTML and JavaScript to create dynamic UI elements in Shiny applications ➜
One of the key advantages of Shiny, the interactive visualisation web application framework for R, is that it allows users to deploy interactive applications ... Read more ➜
Using Shiny Modules to simplify building complex apps ➜
Whenever I start writing a new Shiny application – the technology on which we’ve built our mini-apps capability – or when I want to prototype ... Read more ➜
AnalytiXagility, de-identification and the anonymisation decision-making framework ➜
A key issue for clinical research efforts is the need to increase data sharing in order to develop and exchange new ideas, methodologies and approaches ... Read more ➜
AnalytiXagility – Gartner’s advanced clinical research information system? ➜
Prior to joining Aridhia, and during my MSc course in Stratified Medicine and Pharmacological Innovation at the University of Glasgow, I often used Gartner’s ‘Hype ... Read more ➜
Science, communication and plasticine – My Impact in 60 Seconds experience! ➜
When we launched our first Impact in 60 Seconds competition in partnership with The University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences (MVLS) ... Read more ➜
Nissan Social Media Data Challenge ➜
Last week Aridhia went to Sunderland to support and enable the Nissan Social Media Data Challenge at Sunderland Software Centre, providing AnalytiXagility as the event’s ... Read more ➜
RNA-seq: creating simple outputs from complex genetic data ➜
As part of our recent stream of genomics work, we began to look at ways in which the complex data outputs associated with RNA-seq research ... Read more ➜
Aridhia Demos Collaborative Research at Big Data Expo 2015 ➜
We were really pleased to be part of the Big Data Expo in Utrecht last month – a new European conference celebrating big data – ... Read more ➜
Enabling Reproducible Research in a Collaborative and Secure Environment ➜
Reproducibility in science is becoming increasingly important. The rise of meta-analysis and systematic reviews (such as the Cochrane Reviews) and a number of recent studies ... Read more ➜
Risk Stratification: Reducing the Risk of Readmission within 30 Days ➜
It was announced under government plans in 2010 that hospitals will face financial penalties if patients are readmitted as an emergency within 30 days of ... Read more ➜
The Clinical Dataset Library – Part of Aridhia’s Metadata Services ➜
There’s a proverb, frequently attributed to Mrs Isabella Beeton, which states “A place for everything and everything in its place” and that is exactly what ... Read more ➜
Analytics Essentials: Improving Your Data Quality ➜
Profiling your Data Why is data quality important? Before starting to do any analysis it is really important to ensure that your data is in good condition ... Read more ➜
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 ... Read more ➜
We Are in the ‘Age of Diabetes’ ➜
This week Diabetes Scotland released its 2015 State of the Nation report – it’s annual review of diabetes care in Scotland. As always, it makes ... Read more ➜
An Introduction to R Parallelisation Support in AnalytiXagility ➜
Today I’m going to introduce you to the new R parallelisation capability that has been included in the latest version of AnalytiXagility and how we ... Read more ➜
Is Federated Analysis the Way Forward for Genomics? ➜
Last month, four of the world’s leading researchers from within the genomics community published a paper which suggested that “…between 100 million and as many ... Read more ➜
Blockchain and Digital Health – First impressions ➜
Among the many great Edinburgh festivals, the Turing Festival is the most important to the tech start-up scene locally and beyond. This weekend, I attended ... Read more ➜
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 ... Read more ➜
Investigating Prescribing Data and Costs Using New Mini-apps and ggvis ➜
Following on from last week’s post where I introduced our new mini-apps capability, today I’m going to demonstrate how to create more advanced and interactive ... Read more ➜
The Opportunities and Challenges in Stratified Medicine: an MSc View ➜
My name is Emma and I’m currently working at Aridhia as an intern in the data science team as part of my MSc course in ... Read more ➜
Getting Started with AnalytiXagility Mini-apps ➜
As you may know we launched the updated version of AnalytiXagility last week, and the platform now includes some great new capabilities in the form ... Read more ➜
Introducing AnalytiXagility Mini-Apps – Rapid Prototyping for Clinical Applications ➜
Today I have the pleasure of announcing the latest release of our AnalytiXagility platform, and sharing with you the exciting new mini-apps feature in this ... Read more ➜
My Horizon 2020 Journey ➜
Just over a year ago Aridhia took the decision to engage in the H2020 programme. Up until that point we had been brought into a ... Read more ➜
What will NHS Scotland’s New Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care Mean for IG and Research? ➜
At the beginning of May this year, the Scottish Government took an important step towards simplifying NHS Scotland’s information governance procedures as it relates to ... Read more ➜
Visualising Genomic Data with AnalytiXagility ➜
Tomorrow I’m heading to Glasgow to attend the Next Generation Sequencing 2015 event, where Aridhia’s CTO Rodrigo Barnes will be talking about industrialising genomic annotation ... Read more ➜
How Analytics is Improving Care for Renal Cancer Patients ➜
Aridhia is pioneering the use of biomedical informatics and analytics to support the management of chronic diseases, including cancer. In a collaboration with a cancer Centre ... Read more ➜
Aridhia Joins StartEdin, a Campaign to Bring Together and Promote the Local Technology Ecosystem ➜
I’m very pleased to confirm that Aridhia have recently joined forces with StartEdin, a collective bringing together and promoting the local technology ecosystem. As a growing ... Read more ➜
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. ... Read more ➜
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 ... Read more ➜
Frailty Assessment Research – Potential Data Sources ➜
For my Frailty Assessment research, I am planning to incorporate the development of a tool that enables frailty assessment in different care settings with the ... Read more ➜
Lotte Dinesen – Clinical Research Fellow in E-health and Telemedicine ➜
I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Lotte Dinesen, I’m a consultant in General Internal Medicine, and currently a Clinical ... Read more ➜
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 ... Read more ➜
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 ... Read more ➜
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 ... Read more ➜
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 ... Read more ➜
Uses of Open Data ➜
Accident and Emergency (A&E) attendance The UK Government launched its Open Data initiative in 2010, in a bid to make data available to drive innovation and ... Read more ➜
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 ... Read more ➜
Reflection on Audit Scotland’s report: Management of patients on NHS waiting lists audit update ➜
Hitting the headlines at the end of last week was a story regarding the ability of Scotland’s 15 health boards to deliver on government waiting ... Read more ➜
Academic Health Science Networks and Wealth Creation, a New Concept ➜
When it was announced earlier this year that NHS England was creating a network of 15 new Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) to act as ... Read more ➜
Research Analytics – Data Interpretation in the Genomics Era ➜
We have been hard at work over the past few years developing our analytics platform aimed at healthcare providers, research institutions and life science research ... Read more ➜
NHS England Hospital Data and Datasets Consultation – Aridhia’s Angle ➜
During the summer months our Clinical, Lifescience & Strategy group has been digesting and reflecting on NHS England’s paper launched in July, NHS Hospital Data ... Read more ➜
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