Health Informatics Centre (HIC) - University Of Dundee

The Health Informatics Centre (HIC), based within the School of Medicine at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, The University of Dundee is an ISO27001 accredited, Scottish Government regional ‘Safe Haven’ or ‘Trusted Research Environment’. This means that HIC facilitate, as trusted data custodians, the safe, efficient and governance managed use of de-identified health data on behalf of the NHS and Scottish Government for legitimate research use. HIC maintains, as a data processor, anonymised records for approximately 20% of the Scottish population, in particular the health boards of Tayside and Fife. This is providing ‘big-data’ scale expertise and technical compute systems for research alongside the development of tools for future use within the clinical systems and collaboration with industry partners. Our team are managing population data for over one million patient records extending back approximately 30 years.