Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Arcturis, becoming part of Arcturis’ Real-World Data Network, a network providing real-time access to “diverse and enriched” health data representative of the UK population.
The network, approved by the Health Research Authority, brings together anonymised data including medications, lab tests, pathology reports, and clinical notes, along with other unstructured data, into disease specific datasets, which are then used to generate precision insights to inform drug development.
Paul Jones, CDIO at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, spoke of his team’s excitement around the partnership, adding: “By combining our clinical expertise with Arcturis’ data science and analytic capabilities, this partnership has the opportunity to accelerate the development of new therapies and improve patient outcomes.”
Leeds Teaching Hospitals also recently announced the publication for a market engagement exercise as part of the development of the city’s innovation village and new hospital, “expected to create 4,000 jobs and £13 billion in economic benefits”. The trust is looking to collaborate with investors, developers and leading suppliers on new opportunities for the site, while also “pursuing alternative delivery models outside of NHS capital budgets to bring forward new, fit-for-purpose clinical buildings”.
Clare Green, transformation manager at LTHT, also joined us for a recent HTN Now webinar to share how Leeds Teaching Hospitals engages clinicians to shape its in-house electronic health record, supporting flexibility, scalability and resilience across Leeds and the wider region.
Wider trend: Uses of data from across health and care
Newcastle Hospitals has entered into data partnerships with Flatiron Health and Promptly Health, to support the development of research-ready datasets to help improve patient care, focus on value of its data, and promote data-driven innovation. Recognising current limitations around data usage based on information being stored in different locations and within different software systems, the trust is seeking to enter data partnerships which will offer access to specialist skills and technologies required to make better use of data for research, innovation and development.
Barts Health has introduced a data anonymisation and exportation tool to complement its newly launched Barts Health Data Platform (BHDP), supporting researchers to access anonymised diagnostic scans. The BHDP, which is hosted in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud, has been designed to offer a dedicated workspace for research projects and the opportunity to integrate AI in the identification of trends or patterns amongst large patient cohorts. It brings together information types across scans, health records and lab results, granting the potential to explore health conditions and treatments in greater depth.
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced a centralised system for cancer patients, built into the Federated Data Platform, the tool is said to bring cancer patient information together. The Cancer 360 tool collates data points across tests, appointments and treatments, displayed via a dashboard. DHSC highlights how this will help “track a patient’s progress and support personalised treatment plans”.
