Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2017
NICE plays key role in European project to help give better care to patients with blood cancers
23 March 2017 - NICE will help improve care for people with blood cancers through a pioneering new partnership.
NICE will join over 50 organisations across Europe in a five-year project called HARMONY.
Using big data to increase understanding of blood cancers, the project aims to speed up the development and patient access to innovative medicines for this disease area.
Big data refers to large or complex data sets that can be analysed computationally to reveal patterns.
The HARMONY project will create a European wide big data platform that will focus on clinical outcomes that matter most to patients, clinicians and organisations such as NICE. Data that will be captured includes anonymised patient data, results from clinical trials, registries, hospitals and academic or treatment centres.
