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DRIVE partnerships, collaborations and networks
We know that when we work together and combine expertise, resources and learnings we can achieve so much more. That is why partnerships and collaborations are core to our mission.
We are also part of many national and international networks, meaning the work we do not only benefits our patients at GOSH, but also patients across the world.
Our current partnerships
GOSH and Roche Products Limited (Roche) have a collaborative working agreement that will help establish a new Clinical Informatics and Innovation Unit at GOSH as an exemplar in the NHS, alongside four key areas of focus:
- Improve research capability and clinical decision support systems
- Use digital tools to improve how we collect data from research and in clinical trials
- Use anonymised real-world data to improve paediatric personalised healthcare
- Improve clinical and research data using sensors, devices and wearable technology
Aridhia’s cloud-based Digital Research Environment (DRE) enables safe, compliant collaboration and access to the incredible potential of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Aridhia helps clinical and life sciences pioneers in Research Hospitals, Universities, Pharmaceutical Companies & Global Medical Networks who want to advance their medical research and improve outcomes more efficiently.
Aridhia supplies the GOSH DRE, a secure, audited online platform to advance medical research and develop health service improvements. Catalogued routinely collected data is accessed via FAIR Data Services and scrutinised with integrated advanced analytics tools in Workspaces.
Find out more on Aridhia's website and the research lifecycle enabled by their services here.
Hyland provides industry-leading technology foundations that empower its customers to create better human connections.
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Hyland Healthcare provides connected healthcare solutions that harness unstructured content and link it to core clinical and business applications such as electronic health records (EHR). For more information, visit the Hyland website.
GOSH and Arcturis Data, a UK-based clinical artificial intelligence company have a partnership to use clinical artificial intelligence to analyse anonymised patient data. This will allow us to work together to find new and better ways to treat rare and complex childhood diseases.
Under the agreement, Arcturis Data and GOSH will focus on three areas of AI in:
- Paediatric drug discovery
- Tools to support clinical decision making for children’s care
- Clinical trial design to study historic data and create new ‘model’ data for comparison
Networks
Through the DRIVE, GOSH is part of national and global networks focused on healthcare innovation. These involve other NHS Foundation Trusts and medical centres, academia, and industry including start-ups.
These networks support improvements in treatment and care for children and young people at GOSH and on a global scale through:
- Collaborations on research studies and operational improvement projects using data and advanced analytics
- Sharing insights on latest innovations and how they were deployed
- Leveraged funds and opportunities through collaboration
The CHA is a network of paediatric specialist NHS trusts working together to improve quality, access and experience of hospital care. It is co-chaired by the CEOs at GOSH and Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. It focusses on learning, leadership and advocacy for children’s hospitals, and runs a range of shared programmes including on innovation and tackling health inequalities.
Find out more about the CHA here.
Children admitted to hospital face unique health challenges that are not always recognised or prioritised by larger health policy initiatives. ECHO was created to address these challenges and improve the health of children across Europe.
GOSH contributes to, and benefits from opportunities with this network as key ambitions for ECHO include addressing data challenges and a lack of research and innovation for the benefit of children in hospital.
You can find out more about ECHO here.
GOSH is a data partner with the EHDEN network, an Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) 2 consortium with 23 European partners. The aim of the network is to address current challenges in generating insights and evidence from real-world clinical data at scale to support research and innovation.
As a data partner, GOSH is supporting the mission to reduce the time needed to provide answers in real world, health research. The network will achieve this by developing data infrastructure, collaborating on research methodologies, and education in open science collaboration. The EHDEN Paediatric Network will focus on studies related to child health.
You can find out more about EHDEN here.
GOSH is one of six leading European children’s hospitals that make up the PHEMS project consortium. PHEMS (short for ‘Paediatric Hospitals as European drives for multi-party computation and synthetic data generation capabilities across clinical specialities and data types’) project will revolutionise how children’s health data is managed and used across Europe and advance research and innovation in healthcare for children, while ensuring patient’s rights and data privacy remain protected.
Read our announcement here and visit the PHEMS website here.