Upcoming Events
Please contact victoria.gray@uwa.edu.au if you would like to advertise any upcoming events.
Past Events
Manitoba Centre for Health Policy 20th Anniversary Celebrations
Winnipeg, Manitoba
8th-9th March 2010
The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy celebrated its 20th year in 2010. In its short life MCHP has been recognized for numerous groundbreaking achievements in population and public health research leading to evidence-informed health and social policy.
The IHDLN will hosted a breakout session at the conference on Monday 8th. Topics in this session included:
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“Population Health Research Network (PHRN): A Collaboration to establish Data Linkage infrastructure across Australia to support Health Research.”
- “Using linked health survey and hospital data to examine the risk factors associated with alcohol-related morbidity and mortality.”
- “Using international population health data to explore an alarming increase in excessive bleeding post-childbirth.”
The Second Meeting of the IHDLN was held on Tuesday 9th March from 1pm to 5pm, followed by a dinner. A copy of the meeting papers are available for download from the Meetings of the IHDLN section of this website
Negotiating the World of Health Data
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Monday 12th October 2009
New to research using administrative datasets?
Queensland Centre for Health Data Services presents a step-by-step guide to the data application process, resources and privacy preserving protocols. Gain insight to what Queensland Health and Data Custodians require, with the opportunity to ask questions and meet other researchers. The workshop is limited to 30 participants.
For more information see Workshop Flyer (pdf 530kB)
Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research
University of St Andrews, Scotland
17th-19th September 2009
The University of St Andrews, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The 3-day international conference is the second in the series, following a highly successful meeting in 2007. This conference will include papers relating to five themes:
1. The value of record linkage in health research
2. Record linkage for health care improvement
3. Longitudinal record linkage
4. The methodological challenges of record linkage
5. Confidentiality, disclosure and ethical issues
The 5-day training workshop which precedes the conference (12th to 16th September 2009) will also include five themes:
1. Using linkable registry data in health services research
2. Measuring health services utilisation
3. Characterising clinical populations using linkable registry data
4. Evaluating health services outcome
5. Theory and practice of risk adjustment in health services research
If you are interested in attending either or both of these events, please register using the links provided in Exploting Existing Data for Health Research document (PDF 599kB)
Statistics for Health Registers and Linked Databases
The Open University Statistics Group & The Wellcome Trust, Milton Keynes UK
20-21 May 2009
The Open University Statistics Group presents a two-day conference on Statistics for health registers and linked databases, to be held on Wednesday May 20th - Thursday May 21st, 2009, at the Open University in Milton Keynes.
In medicine, epidemiology and the social sciences, increasing use is now made of electronic databases of individual records, sometimes augmented by linkage, and often set up for purposes other than health research. The analysis of such data offers huge potential, but also presents great challenges. Statistics for health registers and linked databases, the 20th nearly-annual Open University statistics conference, will focus on the statistical issues and methods relevant to the analysis of such data, including: probabilistic linkage, methods of confounder control, handling missing data, multiplicities and multiple data sources, survival analysis methods, confidentiality.
For more information see http://statistics.open.ac.uk/hrld
2008 Data Linkage Centre Visits
Monday 8th December
Linking Information in Scotland
Information Services (ISD) and the Scottish Education Exchange Unit (ScotXed) have arranged a centre visit to talk about record linkage in Scotland. See the Agenda , Directions and Accommodation Options.
Presentations:
Linking Health Information in Scotland PDF (1.7MB)
The Linked Scottish Health Survey PDF (375kB)
Record Linkage Using Probability Matching PDF (331kB)
Introducing Information Services Division PDF (1MB)
ISD Scotland was formed to encompass the collection, processing and dissemination of statistical information required for exploring a range of areas from service provision planning to epidemiological research for the Health Service in Scotland. Since it was established, ISD has developed data matching techniques and a range of methods for analysing and presenting the resulting linked data. The agenda for the meeting provides an overview of the services provided and examples of data matching projects.
ScotXed support and promote the electronic exchange of information among education partners in Scotland. In order to reduce the burden on data providers and to fully exploit the value of existing statistical sources we are exploring the possibility of accurate data matching between education and social work data sets. Although in the very early stages we will provide an overview of the project and hope to learn from the experiences in other centres.
The event is being hosted by the Scottish Government at Victoria Quay in Edinburgh.
Contact Details:
James Boyd
E-mail: james.boyd@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Tel : +44 131 244 0307
Carole Morris
E-mail: Carole.Morris@isd.csa.scot.nhs.uk
Tel : +44 131 275 6598
Tuesday 9th December
Oxford Record Linkage
The Unit of Health Care Epidemiology at the University of Oxford are hosting a visit to their site. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with the people who involved with the maintenance of the Oxford Record Linkage Study and the researchers who use the information.
The researchers are now substantially involved in developing the use of English national linked data, both in research and in supporting Public Health Observatories, see for example their atlases and other work at http://www.uhce.ox.ac.uk/Epidembase2/
A tour of Magdalen College is also a possibility. For further information, please contact Professor Michael Goldacre.
