The OpenSafely Research Platform
- Funded by Wellcome Trust
- Total publications:94 publications
Grant number: 222097/Z/20/Z
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Start & end year
20202023Known Financial Commitments (USD)
$3,002,509.66Funder
Wellcome TrustPrincipal Investigator
Dr. Ben GoldacreResearch Location
United KingdomLead Research Institution
University of OxfordResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Health Systems Research
Research Subcategory
Health information systems
Special Interest Tags
Data Management and Data Sharing
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Not Applicable
Vulnerable Population
Not applicable
Occupations of Interest
Not applicable
Abstract
OpenSAFELY is a new secure analytics platform for electronic health records in the NHS, created to deliver urgent results during the global COVID-19 emergency. It is now successfully delivering analyses across more than 24 million patients' full pseudonymised primary care NHS records, with more to follow shortly. All our analytic software is open for security review, scientific review, and re-use. OpenSAFELY uses a new model for enhanced security and timely access to data: we don't transport large volumes of potentially disclosive pseudonymised patient data outside of the secure environments managed by the electronic health record software company; instead, trusted analysts can run large scale computation across live pseudonymised patient records inside the data centre of the electronic health records software company. This pragmatic and secure approach has allowed us to deliver our first analyses in just five weeks from project start.
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