Author: Stephanie Little

We are pleased to announce that the NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis and Liver Disease Theme won a top poster prize at European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Congress 2024. This study employs machine learning algorithms to enhance the prediction of hepatitis B surface antigen seroclearance using patients’ baseline data at presentation. Big data analytics and machine learning utilising large datasets from electronic health records can be promising to identify individuals with the highest likelihood of HBsAg loss, which is relevant to determining immune-mediated clearance and functional cure with new therapeutic agents. The poster is publicly accessible via Figshare. 

We are pleased to announce that the NIHR HIC Hearing Health Theme has published a new paper titled ‘Creating a health informatics data resource for hearing health research’  which is available at BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

We are pleased to announce that the NIHR HIC Cardiovascular Theme has published a new paper titled ‘Changes in the investigation and management of suspected myocardial infarction and injury during COVID-19: a multi-centre study using routinely collected healthcare data’ which is available at Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.

We are pleased to welcome our 35th collaborator, Whittington Health NHS Trust to the NIHR HIC, further information about the Trust is available at www.whittington.nhs.uk

We are pleased to announce that the NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme has published a new poster titled ‘Distinct virologic trajectories in chronic hepatitis B patients identify heterogeneity in response to nucleotide analogue therapy ’ which is available at EASL Congress 2023.

We are pleased to welcome our 31st collaborator, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to the NIHR HIC, further information about the organisation is available at www.bfwh.nhs.uk

We are pleased to announce that the NIHR HIC Renal Transplantation Theme has published a new paper titled ‘Incidence, Risk Factors, and Effect on Allograft Survival of Glomerulonephritis Post-transplantation in a United Kingdom Population: Cohort Study’ which is available at Frontiers in Nephrology.

We are pleased to announce that the NIHR HIC Colorectal Cancer Theme has published a new paper titled ‘Establishing a colorectal cancer research database from routinely collected health data: the process and potential from a pilot study’ which is available at BMJ Health and Care Informatics.

We are also pleased to share a blog from the Patient and Public Group (PPG) of Bowel Cancer Intelligence UK (BCI-UK) who work closely with the NIHR HIC Colorectal Cancer team and have reviewed this paper and offered their opinion, which is available here. Many thanks to all who contributed to this review.

We are pleased to announce that the NIHR HIC Cardiovascular Theme has published a new paper titled ‘Implications of elevated troponin on time-to-surgery in non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative: TROP-CABG study)‘ which is available at International Journal of Cardiology.