PRIMIS blog
Welcome to the PRIMIS blog, an informal way to keep you posted about our new and ongoing developments, projects and collaborations. Posts will feature voices from the PRIMIS community: our staff, University colleagues and friends from partner organisations, providing their take on what we’re currently working/collaborating on and what’s in the future for PRIMIS.
Implementing algorithms for research projects, February 2024
Did you know that a fraction of algorithm-based tools that are conceived go on to get externally validated and even fewer make it to implementation in clinical practice, not least because of the burden of registering it as a medical device. There are many steps to take from an initial clinical risk calculator to a finalised analytical tool.
PRIMIS’ analytical tool which contains the FAMCAT2 algorithm is one fully successful and realised implementation, which has even gone through registration as a medical device.
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Q Visit at PRIMIS, November 2023
This one-day event hosted by the Health Foundation and PRIMIS brought together colleagues from the Q community to hear about our experience of using a learning health system approach to implement a pharmacist-led intervention to reduce medication error in primary care (PINCER).
The event also provided an opportunity for PRIMIS to showcase its work and how it enables the intelligent use of primary care data for the NHS, academics and industry partners.
PRIMIS Clinical Adviser, Dr Tom Nichols, gives us his own personal view on PRIMIS since joining in 2022
It’s not often that you get a chance to work with the best.
Having grown up building computers and programming games in BASIC on a BBC Micro, I press all the buttons in software to see what happens. Sometimes terrible things happen, sometimes wonderful, but each time I learn something about the way the software works, what is safe and what is not. When you really understand what a system can and can’t do, sometimes you also find the passion to both work within the system to optimise it and push the boundaries of what it is doing, as well as recognising that sometimes you just have to change the system itself.
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PRIMIS' new blog plus a little on Research and Evaluation
Research and evaluation aren’t always the first things that are associated with PRIMIS, but we have a long and illustrious history in providing services for academics.
That wealth of experience, however, allows us to pass on our knowledge and skills with one recent example being the workshop held at the annual Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) conference in Brighton this summer.