The Health eResearch Centre is a digital-health network directed by Professor John Ainsworth[1] that provides research and education across Northern England and beyond.
[3] The centre delivers over 40 eHealth projects that aim to advance science's understanding of specific diseases alongside providing methodological blueprints on how to conduct health data research.
Projects are grouped broadly into the following six themes: The Health eResearch Centre is one of four publicly funded eResearch centres of excellence that together make up The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research.
The network is also building capacity and funding projects in health informatics research.
[5][6] The Farr Institute provides the physical and electronic infrastructure to facilitate collaboration across the four bodies, led by the universities of Dundee, Manchester, Swansea and UCL, and supports the safe use of research and patients' data for medical research.