1. UK Healthcare Text Analytics
Research Network

2. The Rise of EHR Electronic health records Wide adaptation
“the cornerstone of modern health care provision”
primary use: routinely collected data
secondary use: research and quality improvement
Wide adaptation
by 2018 fully digitalised EHRs in the UK
Aim: largely paperless by 2020
Will contain info about patients’ histories, health and lifestyles
Luchenski et al. 2013, JMIR

3. The Rise of EHR Clinician notes, letters are part of EHR
L. Hirschman, CSHALS 2013

4. The Rise of EHR
Estimates are that narrative contains 85% of the clinically actionable information in an EHR*
How can we make this data accessible to researchers and analytics teams?

5. The Rise of Social Media
Micro-blogging
E.g. Twitter
6,000 posts per second
300 million active users
Blogs and forums
E.g. HealthUnlocked
200k registered members
2+ million monthly visitors
2+ million pieces of patient generated data
wealth of patient experience data
6,000 posts on steroids (with multiple replies)
7,800 users interested in lupus
Survey (US): >90% physicians use SM for personal use and 65% for professional use.

6. The Rise of Social Media
symptoms, problems
adverse events
treatments
life-style concepts
sentiment
psychological indicators
quality of life

7. The Rise of Social Media

8. Making sense of healthcare text

9. Healtex UK healthcare text analytics research network
Multi-disciplinary
data/text analysts
clinicians, epidemiologists
semantic technologies
privacy, legal and data protection

10. Healtex objectives Establish a collaborative and sustainable community
Identify and understand barriers, challenges and unmet needs
Identify key research challenges, and facilitate road- mapping
Build the means to share data, methodologies and tools
Incubate new research proposals

11. Membership Over 100 members from
20+ universities
the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research
National clinical registries and databases
UK Renal Registry, mental health (UK CRIS), etc.
10+ NHS trusts
Industry
HealthUnlocked; Linguamatics; Big White Wall; Open Connections; Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems; Quirkos; AstraZeneca

12. Healtex launch event (Nov 2016)

13. Events
We will be supporting workshops to understand the needs, challenges and barriers
Get in touch if you have an idea
Workshop at the Informatics for Health in April (Manchester)
Hands-on events
Datathons and hackathons
Feasibility projects
Funding available for small-scale projects
1st call in 2-3 months
Research and innovation sandpits

14. Join the network
#healtex

15. Additional slides

16. The Rise of Social Media

17. Making sense of healthcare text

18. The Rise of Medical Literature
“epidemiology[MeSH Subheading]” = ~1,700,00 papers
"Clinical trial"[Publication Type] = ~800,000 papers
"Case Reports"[Publication Type] = ~1,750,000 papers