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GM Secure Data Environment (SDE) - Research
Find out more on the current research being undertaken through the GM SDE
The GM Secure Data Environment will help the Health and Care system to understand the many big health challenges that are affecting the communities where we live. This could include why Greater Manchester has such a high incidence of long-term health conditions, meaning that people have a shorter life expectancy and can expect to experience poorer health at a younger age, than the rest of the UK.
There’s an enormous untapped potential in Greater Manchester’s healthcare data, but getting access is very slow or impossible. The GM SDE will change that. It will make this valuable resource available for research, while keeping everyone’s information safe. This close collaboration between the NHS and the University of Manchester means that discoveries can be turned into real-world benefits much faster, improving the health of the residents of GM.
– Dr. Richard Williams, Senior Software Engineer in Health Informatics, University of Manchester
Initial set of academic and industry exemplar projects for GM SDE include:
- Establishing the clinical utility of pre-emptive pharmacogenetic testing across GM using linked data
- Understanding and addressing socio-economic inequality within the quality and safety of care and outcomes for people living with dementia
- Long-term opioid utilisation patterns and associated adverse consequences in patients with chronic-non cancer pain in GM
- Investigating the relationship between HRT prescribing and health care utilisation including referrals to secondary care
- ADAPT: Managing local follow-up for long term cancer survivors
- Optimising lung cancer screening for individuals from underserved communities within GM
- Exploring the early impacts of virtual wards in Greater Manchester, a comparative analysis
- Health outcomes and their determinants in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) across GM
- Redesigning Liver Care pathways to target underserved high disease burden communities
- Optimising Diabetes in Greater Manchester (ODIN-GM)
- Detecting EARLY Heart Failure in GM