Platform · Environment 01
IIRE — Integrated Interoperable Research Environment
Routine care, turned into governed and reusable research data — without identity travelling with it.
What it provides
Four capabilities
De-identification
Applied before data leaves the care environment, not after it arrives somewhere else.
Cohort construction
Selecting populations by coded criteria, which is possible only because capture was coded.
Governed access
Research access under an approval process with a recorded purpose.
Reproducibility
A cohort definition that can be re-run and produce the same set.
Where identity stops
The boundary
Governance
Research is not a licence
Consent covers care, not automatically research
Use of records for research requires its own basis. Where consent for research has not been given, the data is not in the research environment, regardless of how useful it would be.
Discuss a study.
For academic and public health researchers.