Key areas of Health & Bio-Informatics research include:

• Health Information Research Unit (HIRU)
• Health Informatics Research Laboratories
• eHealth Industries Innnovation Centre (ehi² centre)
• Biostatistics and Mathematical Modelling in Epidemiology

Health Informatics research projects include:  

• A pilot study of health and environmental data linkage for Welsh UKBiobank participants
• A pilot study to establish the feasibility of an all Wales psychosis cohort with electronic record linkage (PsyCymru)
• A Population-based Ankylosing Spondylitis [PAS] cohort
• An exploratory study of the human geography of suicide and its relationship to place in Wales (GoS) 
• Analysis of risk outcomes for cardiac conditions (for MINAP)
• Assessment of the Free School Breakfast Initiative (FSBI)
• Biomedical Informatics in Biomarker Discovery and Validation
• Child Cohort Development Group 
• Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatment (DUETs)
• Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer)
• Electronic Linked IBD Joint Access to Health records (ELIJAH)
• Electronic Qualitative Enquiry Programme (EQUIP)
• Evaluation of the use of clinical data captured at the point of care to support research
• Grand Challenges in Information-Driven Healthcare 
• Health Informatics Trial Enhancement project (HITE)
• Implementation of Computerised Clinical Decision Support (CCDS) in a pre-hospital setting
• In-depth study of trends in fatal accidents
• Influences on psychosocial and physical health in early adulthood: phenotypic enrichment of the ALSPAC cohort through linkage to primar care electronic patient records and other databases
• Integration of European Injury Statistics (INTEGRIS) 
• Investigation of the feasibility of using routine data to monitor quality and inform choice 'Routine data audits in gastroenterology: IBD and upper GI bleed'
• Modification of the home environment for the reduction of injuries
• Monitoring the epidemic of childhood diabetes by means of routinely collected data
• Multidisciplinary Computer-Human Interaction research for the design and safe use of interactive medical devices (CHI+MED)
• National Epidemiology Wales (NEW)
• Review of Injury Severity Classification
• Risk of hospital admission and cause-specific mortality associated with common mental disorder: the Caerphilly Health and Social Needs electonic cohort study
• SAFER 1: Support and Assessment for Fall Emergency Referrals
• SAFER 2: Support and Assessment for Fall Emergency Referrals
• The development of a Register for People with Multiple Sclerosis at pilot sites in the United Kingdom
• The Griffith Study of Population Health
• The Health Informatics Trial Enhancement Project (HITE)
• The MINI - can the Mental Illness Needs Index estimate service need for Common Mental Disorders in Primary Care 
• The United Kingdom Burden of Injury Study
• Towards more efficient randomised trials: Electronic records Underpinning REsearch & CAre (EURECA)
• Under-reporting of road casualties - Phase 1
• Using routine data to estimate service need for Common Mental Disorders in Primary Care (MINISAIL)
• Wales Arthritis and Rheumatology Dataset
• Welsh Electronic Cohort for Children (WECC)
• Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD)

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