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The UCL Institute of Health Informatics (IHI) is led by Professor Harry Hemingway. The Vision of the Institute is to conduct high quality research that leverages big data and health informatics approaches to improve health at local, national and international levels. We are developing cutting edge programmes of research in the areas of Discovery Science, Precision Medicine, Learning Health Systems, Public Health and Citizen Driven Health. These programmes of research are underpinned by: excellent secure data infrastructure; adding value to key linked data resources to make data research-ready; development of multidisciplinary methodological expertise; engagement with patients, the public and health services; strong local, national and international academic partnerships and excellent multidisciplinary training programmes. For further information on the Institute can be found on the website: www.ucl.ac.uk/health-informatics.
The Farr Institute, London is now firmly established within the Institute of Health Informatics and is a collaboration between Higher Education Institutions (UCL, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Queen Mary University of London), the National Health Service organisations in UCL Partners and Public Health England. The Director is Professor Harry Hemingway (UCL) and the Deputy Director Professor Liam Smeeth (LSHTM) and there are 33 co-investigators from across the partners. The Institute brings together researchers, clinicians and those with an interest in e-health records research in an environment to foster collaborations and to establish a centre of excellence in innovative health informatics research to maximise translational impact from discovery through trials to clinical practice, service delivery, patient outcomes and public health. For further information can be found on the website: www.ucl.ac.uk/health-informatics/farr-institute-london.
The Farr Data Lab (London) leads the linkage and curation for research of a diverse set of national and local electronic health record and administrative health data sets and undertakes methodological research with regards to phenotyping such sources and performing randomized trials. For further information can be found on the website: www.ucl.ac.uk/health-informatics/research/data-lab.