Professor Andrew Morris, Director of Health Data Research (HDR) UK explains health data science.

The HDR UK's mission is to unite the UK’s #health and care #data to enable discoveries that improve people’s lives by uniting, improving, and using health and care data as one national institute.

Health data #research is a way of gathering, analysing and linking information about people and their health to improve healthcare for all.

Using health data for research helps researchers better understand diseases and health conditions, such as understanding their causes and symptoms, or knowing how many people are affected. It provides new ways of identifying people most at risk of becoming ill, diagnosing diseases earlier, and providing better care and treatment. And it helps health services to run more efficiently and effectively, so everyone can get the care that they need.

Health data research has huge potential to transform healthcare, now and in the future. It has played a major role in the COVID-19 pandemic by helping scientists and doctors understand more about this new disease, and enabling the NHS and decision-makers to respond to the challenge.

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