GSTT Electronic Records Research Interface (GERRI)

  • Research type

    Research Database

  • IRAS ID

    257283

  • Contact name

    Vicky Goh

  • Contact email

    vicky.goh@kcl.ac.uk

  • Research summary

    London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare GSTT Electronic Records Research Interface (GERRI)

  • REC name

    East Midlands - Leicester Central Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    20/EM/0112

  • Date of REC Opinion

    11 May 2020

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion

  • Data collection arrangements

    A de-identified database will be created from the routine electronic hospital records of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) excluding opt-out requests from individuals or patients. The new research database will contain both unstructured data (e.g. free-text in letters and test reports), structured data (e.g. demographics, dates of clinical episodes, numeric data from laboratory tests, imaging).

    This will use the next-generation technology Cogstack which was developed by King’s College Hospital NHS FoundationTrust (KCH) and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) from informatics development for the 100k Genome. This advanced homegrown NHS technology will allow for advanced analytics like natural language processing, semantic inference, real-time signal processing and artificial intelligence.

  • Research programme

    We hope to set up a research database containing de-identified data derived from all the electronic health records, including picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and electronic patient records (EPR), of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). We will make data available for researchers with honorary or substantive contracts with GSTT and King’s Health Partners (KHP) for research, clinical audit, service evaluation and direct patient care and safety projects which can lead to better and safer treatments and services for all patients.

  • Research database title

    London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare GSTT Electronic Records Research Interface (GERRI)

  • Establishment organisation

    Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

  • Establishment organisation address

    St Thomas' Hospital

    Westminster Bridge Road

    SE1 7EH