diff --git a/about.md b/about.md index 8d57f10..3805bee 100644 --- a/about.md +++ b/about.md @@ -4,82 +4,9 @@ title: About permalink: /about/ --- -The Health Data Science Demos website is a repository of research projects being -carried at UCL and UCLH. The information is aimed to the data science community, -to learn how patient data is being used to help improve healthcare. - -Each project provides information about the analysis performed and technologies -developed, the process followed to protect sensitive patient data, as well as -access to the software code behind, and synthetic datasets to enable others to +Learn about the many different +research projects being carried out using patient data and how it is being +used to help improve patient care. Each project provides information +about the steps taken to protect sensitive patient data, as well as access +to code written by the researchers and synthetic datasets to enable you to replicate their analyses. - -Some projects might still be in progress, while others are finalised. - -All analysts and research teams in our community are invited to publish their -own projects, with as much details as they can, and giving access to any -synthetic data or non-sensitive data that can be shared publicly and is required -to understand their methodology. - - -## Founders - -The platform was developed in collaboration between the teams at UCL/UCLH BRC -CRIU and UCL ARC, with support from the CHIMERA Center. - - -### CHIMERA Center - -![CHIMERA Center logo]({{"/assets/images/logo_ucl_chimera.jpg" | relative_url }}) - -The CHIMERA (Collaborative Healthcare Innovation Through Mathematics, -Engineering and AI) Centre examines anonymised data from 40,000 patients to -develop a better understanding using mathematical modelling of how people’s -physiology changes during ill health and recovery. This will in turn provide new -ideas for how critically ill patients can best be cared for. - -CHIMERA’s partner hospitals, UCLH and Great Ormond Street Hospital, store data -collected every few seconds from monitors for patients in intensive care, such -as heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels and temperature. Only a brief -snapshot of this data is used to inform decisions around patient care at the -moment. - -Researchers at CHIMERA will analyse this complex array of data using tools from -data science and machine learning, and then use this to develop new mathematical -models of how our body is behaving during ill health and recovery, to improve -care. - - -### UCL/UCLH BRC CRIU - -https://www.uclhospitals.brc.nihr.ac.uk/criu/ - -The UCL/UCLH Biomedical Research Center (BRC) Clinical Research and Informatics -Unit (CRIU) consists of a team of clinicians, researchers, software developers, -business intelligence analysts and data scientists working together to develop a -robust environment and infrastructure for the analysis of clinical data. - -The main goals are to: - - - Facilitate clinical decision making supported by electronic health records - (EHR). - - Optimise patient care and operational performance through data-driven - innovation. - - Foster excellence in research at UCLH, one of the world’s leading teaching - hospitals. - - -### UCL ARC - -https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arc/ - -The Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) is UCL's research, innovation and -service centre for the tools, practices and systems that enable computational -science and digital scholarship. - -They are an innovative centre with both professional services and academic -missions: - - - To provide advanced, reliable and secure digital research infrastructure to - research groups in UCL and beyond. - - To be a laboratory for research, teaching and innovation in compute, data and - software intensive research methods.