Over the last ten years, over 6 million people have taken part in more than 15,000 clinical research studies supported by the Clinical Research Network. This data needs to be managed, maintained and interpreted by a wide range of stakeholders to drive improvement across the NHS, academia and the life-sciences industry.
The ODP applications (apps) created by the Business Intelligence team deliver insight into CRN portfolio studies, recruitment of participants and trends in performance, as well as offering the operational management tools needed for delivery and continuous improvement. The different apps allow users to interact with high level or granular information to suit their information, analytical and reporting needs.
The Open Data Platform is the name the CRN has given to a series of applications, dashboards and visualisations of data built using QlikView software. QlikView is a BI platform which allows organisations like us to:
Consolidate relevant data from multiple sources into a single place
Explore the associations in our data
Enable social decision making through secure, near real-time collaboration
Visualise data with engaging, state-of-the-art graphics
Search across all data—directly and indirectly
Interact with dynamic dashboards and analytics
The apps in ODP are bringing real benefits by:
Providing a single source of truth for data and so reducing internal ‘data debates’
Improving the quality of data through consistency of approach, embedded standards and exposure to errors
Delivering superior visualisation, enabling users to interact with the data and explore trends at a glance
Combining and increasing the scope of data – revealing patterns, risks and best practice
Providing access to near real-time data
Any NIHR staff with an nihr.ac.uk email address
NHS and academic staff, with an NHS or ac.uk email address
Staff from clinical research networks in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
See Getting Started for more information
You can access ODP at https://odp.nihr.ac.uk
If you have any questions about ODP, or its development, please get in touch: odp@nihr.ac.uk