We were delighted to be partners in the Semi-Automated Risk Assessment of Data Provenance and Clinical Free-Text in TREs (SARA) project - one of the five DARE UK Phase 1 Driver Projects funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Data is transforming health and social care, enabling life-changing discoveries, advancing healthcare services and improving lives. Yet health data providers face challenges in extracting and linking this complex data and safeguarding its safe release for research.
The SARA project focussed on delivering semi-automated tools to improve two areas of risk assessment and monitoring:
- data provenance (metadata that describes the origins, actions performed and agents involved in data creation and transformation) by improving the trustworthiness of how we bring data in and then process and link it to ensure it is compliant for research; and
- privacy assessment by minimising the risk of identifiable information in clinical free-text records (for example, GP letters and discharge summaries).
A huge ‘thank you and well done’ to the DaSH team (our local trusted research environment) who helped deliver this project.
Find out more on the Driver Projects Blog Series and visit the SARA Driver Project page for the final reports and outputs: SARA: Semi-Automated Risk Assessment of Data Provenance and Clinical Free-text in trusted research environments.