Outline Programme

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Course Overview

Day 1: Electronic health records (EHRs) and data linkage (Wed 18th-July)

0900-0930

Welcome, introductions and overview

0930-1030

Epidemiology using EHR and linked data

1100-1300

What’s in (and what’s not in) an EHR, and how to prepare data for analysis

1400-1520

Analysing EHR data: traditional and novel approaches part 1 *

1540-1700

Analysing EHR data: traditional and novel approaches part 2

Day 2: Patient-generated data: smartphones (Thu 19th-July)

0830-0930

Epidemiology using digital patient-generated data

0930-1115

Public involvement and designing systems for collecting patient-generated data

1145-1300

Preparation of temporally-rich patient-generated data *

1400-1530

Analytic methods: making use of longitudinal patient-generated data

1545-1700

Key note lecture (Dr David Buckeridge, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

The population health monitoring trinity: epidemiological methods, informatics, and big digital data

Day 3: Patient-generated data: sensors and social media (Fri 20th-July)

0830-0930

Epidemiology using sensor and IoT data

0930-1015

How to collect data passively

1040-1200

Preparing and processing sensor data *

1200-1300

Using sensor data in epidemiological research

1400-1445

Designing research projects that incorporate sensor and IoT data

1515-1700

Social media data from patients *

* practical session