A national initiative in data science for health: an evaluation of the UK Farr Institute.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the extent to which the inter-institutional, inter-disciplinary mobilisation of data and skills in the Farr Institute contributed to establishing the emerging field of data science for health in the UK.

Design and outcome measures

We evaluated evidence of six domains characterising a new field of science:defining central scientific challenges,demonstrating how the central challenges might be solved,creating novel interactions among groups of scientists,training new types of experts,re-organising universities,demonstrating impacts in society.We carried out citation, network and time trend analyses of publications, and a narrative review of infrastructure, methods and tools.

Setting

Four UK centres in London, North England, Scotland and Wales (23 u

SUBMITTER: Hemingway H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7480324 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature