What if every cancer story contributed to better care for all?
Flatiron Health UK partners with the NHS and patients to turn routine clinical data into research-ready insights that support innovation in cancer care and research.
Our mission
To improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer.
We work with healthcare organisations to translate cancer patients’ real-world experiences into research-ready datasets and support the secure use of this data to improve patient care and outcomes, and advance cancer research.
Understanding the challenge
UK healthcare organisations generate vast amounts of rich patient data
Data is fragmented
Health data is stored across hundreds of different systems and organisations. For researchers and clinicians, finding the right data — even within your own organisation — is complex and time-consuming.
Data is inconsistent
Clinical data is captured in multiple formats and structures, making it difficult to combine or compare. Important insights are often locked in unstructured text or missing key context.
Data is hard to use
Even when data is available, it’s often not research-ready. It requires time, expertise and resources to clean, curate and structure it in a way that’s usable for research, or to improve clinical care.
Flatiron’s data solutions
NHS partners enable Flatiron to securely process and anonymise data on relevant cancer patients, excluding any patients who have opted out.
Flatiron's model ensures that no personal information ever leaves the NHS.
How we partner
Working with the NHS to create value across the UK cancer community
Flatiron Health has approval from the NHS Health Research Authority to improve the quality of routinely-collected oncology data. We partner with NHS hospitals to translate cancer patients’ real-world experiences into research-ready datasets. We support NHS clinicians, researchers and data managers to use this data—at no charge—to improve patient care and outcomes, in ways that fit into routine clinical care and workflows.
These partnerships are cost neutral for the NHS. We provide grant funding that covers the additional resources required for the partnership, such as the IT infrastructure needed to support data integration. Where possible, we leverage existing NHS systems to minimise disruption.
Director of Research and Innovation at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
As part of our strategy to grow as an international centre of excellence for research, education and innovation we are delighted to be partnering with Flatiron Health UK.
Our impact
Flatiron Health is a leader in creating research-ready oncology data
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Our commitment to data privacy and security
At Flatiron Health we respect patients’ privacy and we handle patient information in a safe, secure and ethical way at all times. We have approval from the NHS Health Research Authority to improve the quality of real world NHS data. We are Cyber Essentials Plus certified and complete the annual NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit.
