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THIN |
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The Health
Improvement Network (THIN) is a collaboration between two
companies with an established name in primary care computing:
EPIC, an expert in the provision of the primary care patient
data that is used for medical research, and In Practice
Systems (INPS), who continue to develop and supply the
widely-used Vision general practice computer system.
INPS have written unobtrusive data collection software for
Vision practices that have joined the THIN Scheme. The
anonymised patient data are collected from the practice's
Vision clinical system on a regular basis without interruption
to the running of the GP’s system and sent to EPIC who
supplies the THIN data to researchers for studies. Research
studies for publication conducted using THIN Data are approved
by a nationally accredited ethics committee which has also
approved the data collection scheme.
THIN’s aims are:
To help those practices that have joined THIN improve the
quality of their clinical data recording by offering training
and analysis of the practice's anonymised patient data.
Create a database of anonymised primary care data to be used
by academics, commercial and other research organisations to
undertake studies of epidemiology, drug safety and treatment
and prevention of disease.
For more information on the scheme see
www.thin-uk.com |
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