Revolutionising the way real world evidence is used for research into treating and preventing disease

Services

Discover-NOW, the health data research hub for real world evidence, supports clinicians, researchers and scientists to:

Recruit patients to studies

Develop new treatments

Manage and prevent health conditions

Test and evaluate innovations


How we work with you

Discover-NOW is pioneering the use of real-world evidence (RWE) in the treatment and prevention of disease.

A gateway to one of the largest deidentified linked health and care datasets in Europe (over 2.5 million people), our services can connect you to a RWE validation ecosystem through a Trusted Research Environment which has been co-designed with citizens.

Our team will work with throughout the lifespan of your project to accommodate your needs. We bring together life sciences, health-tech, academia and the NHS to work on projects, and it’s the blend of our services, our expertise, our data and partnerships which makes working with us the ideal solution to get results.

Together we can revolutionise the way health data is used responsibly to treat and prevent disease.

 

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Services

Discover-NOW enables research through:

  • Feasibility studies
  • Retrospective studies
  • Patient identification and recruitment
  • Health economic evaluations
  • AI and machine learning
  • Health implementation

Run complex and powerful searches over the rich deidentified linked dataset of over 2.5m population to inform protocol design and study feasibility.

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Generate data driven insights and analysis into populations and cohorts, using the rich linked longitudinal health and care data.

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Using leading edge tools such as FARSITE and the North West London Research Register to to help find and match patients to clinical trials.

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Support the evaluation of new products or interventions through analysis of real world evidence.

Develop and test predictive AI approaches to determine if your technologies are effective and scalable

Ensure learnings from your research can deliver real world impact for patients

OUR DATA

Data from
> 2.5m
population
Over
10 yrs
historic data
More than
300
access approvals

Case Studies

Explore how our data has been used in research to treat and prevent disease

Ten-year progression of obesity-related complications in a population with overweight and obesity in the UK

A retrospective open cohort study to assess the prevalence of individual obesity-related complications, multimorbidity, and multimorbidity-associated healthcare costs, over 10 years.

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Data

Variations in healthcare costs by body mass index and obesity-related complications in a UK population

This retrospective open cohort study aimed to estimate healthcare resource utilisation (HCRU) and healthcare costs by body mass index (BMI) in a UK cohort and to explore how this varied by defined BMI strata.

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Retrospective analysis of the burden of vaso–occlusive events experienced by sickle cell disease (SCD) patients

Quantifying the frequency of VOCs in patients with SCD over 16 years of age and the healthcare resource utilisation of this group across North West London’s healthcare system.

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Albuminuria and the emergence of vascular problems in people with Type 2 Diabetes

Understanding the association between varying degrees of albuminuria and the development of vascular multi-morbidities in people with T2DM who have developed stage 3a CKD (CKD3a). Additionally, quantifying the prescription of medications beneficial in delaying CKD progression and reducing the risk of co-morbid disorders.

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Partners

Working together with our partners