National health data in a format that’s ready for analysis for projects with ethics approval.
What we do
The Health Data Platform is a University of Auckland service that helps staff and students get secure access to routinely collected national health data from Te Whatu Ora National Collections that has been pre-processed and is ready for use.
We can help researchers use this data by:
- Creating datasets for a project
- Providing quotes to complete a grant application
- Providing information to apply for ethics approval.
We can help with study-specific datasets that need to be linked to the data we hold.
We can also help staff wanting to use authentic New Zealand health data for teaching and training.
How we do it
Excellence in data science and health research
We identify relevant history or outcomes for clinical studies by linking with routinely collected health data.
Ethical and safe practice
We extract and link data in a secure environment to generate relevant cohorts and variables.
Efficient re-use of health data
We develop and maintain clinically validated definitions of core variables for re-use.
How the Health Data Platform can help
Raw routinely collected health datasets are rarely ready for use in research; they’re massive, difficult to work with, and contain sensitive information.
To help you overcome this, we can:
- Curate these de-identified datasets and make them available to you in a secure environment
- Extract, combine, and define variables so the information required for your project is in a ‘ready-to-analyse’ form
- Link project-specific datasets (e.g. from trials, surveys) to national health data.
Who we are
The Health Data Platform team is based in the Schools of Medicine and Population Health in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences.
We come from a variety of academic backgrounds with interests in Medicine, Digital Health, Public Health and Data Science which propels our passion to deliver an ethical, secure, efficient health data platform.
Get in touch
If you’re interested in using our service or finding out how we can help your research or teaching, please reach out to our team.