Applied health informatics

NIHR ARC West provides national leadership on applied health informatics across the ARCs, including convening the cross-ARC Applied Health Informatics Network. The network’s workstreams are:

• Observational research
• Artificial intelligence
• Development, evaluation and implementation of digital tools
• Patient and public involvement and engagement

This work is part of NIHR’s national leadership areas and is linked to our applied data science methodological theme.

What does our work in applied health informatics cover?

At our inaugural cross-ARC meeting in 2019 we agreed that we would focus on:

• applied health research using routine data, including the use of artificial intelligence
• digitally delivered health and care
• patient and public involvement and engagement on the use of personal data in research