Big on data but short of breath

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Abstract

Most clinicians clear the room when someone starts talking about coding and healthcare data. But routinely collected electronic healthcare record data is becoming increasingly commonplace, and important. Not only in every day clinical practice as more and more systems are automated, but in understanding disease trends (e.g. in the current COVID-19 pandemic where decisions need to be made on who needs to shield), in informing policy (such as working out how many people have asthma in the UK and where in the country observed and expected prevalence do not match), and in the planning and allocation of resources (e.g. to encourage uptake of pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD patients).

However, any data set is only as good as what was entered – its garbage in and garbage out if you don’t know what you’re doing. So how do we enthuse busy clinicians entering the data in the first place, as well as those using the data to make national level decisions of its value and importance?

Prof Jennifer Quint has used routinely collected electronic healthcare record data to study several respiratory diseases, including most recently COVID-19, as well as working to maximising the quality, linkage and usage of routinely collected data for clinical and research purposes. In her inaugural lecture, she will chart her journey, from growing up in the US Midwest wanting to be an astronaut, through to learning how not to be pegged by others but to follow your own path, something that she inspires the medical students she teaches to think about today. She will describe a number of her team’s successes illustrating how this work has informed policy and changed guidelines.

Biography

Jennifer Quint is a Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology in the SPH and NHLI at Imperial College London. She is an Honorary Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine at both the Royal Brompton and Imperial College London NHS Foundation Trust. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. She works closely with NHSE/I on data and metrics across a number of respiratory parameters, partners with the Royal College of Physicians where she is the Analysis Lead for the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme and is the Deputy Director of the BREATHE HDR UK hub. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Thorax but will shortly take over as joint Editor-in-chief and is the Information Governance Trustee for the British Thoracic Society. She is also the Domain lead for Research Skills and Module lead for CRI across the MBBS curriculum at Imperial.

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