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In this session, Emma Rourke, Director of Health Analysis and Pandemic Insights at ONS, outlines how the organization leveraged large-scale linked administrative data assets alongside ambitious survey data collection, including wide scale biological sampling, to offer unique evidence and insights that have informed the UK's pandemic response. Emma will detail how ONS stood-up the gold-standard longitudinal Coronavirus Infection Survey (CIS) in April 2020, offering trusted regular estimates of Covid-19 infection and immunity across all four nations of the UK.

Dr. Andrew King from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine presented his work on the Simple EMR System, a "rapidly deployable and readily customizable electronic medical record (EMR) user interface for supporting laboratory-based research studies of EMR design and usability."" It is written in Python, and is freely available under the GPL-3.0 License.

Demonstrating the power of the open source community, Martijn Schumie coordinated a group of 32 OHDSI (Observational Health Data Science Informatics) collaborators to participate in the HADES (Health Analytics Data-to-Evidence Suite) Unit-Test-A-Thon as a means to introduce new community members to HADES code and improve the overall coverage of unit tests within HADES. He presented a background on OHDSI - the tools, ecosystem, and community - and described how he was able to make the Unit-Test-A-Thon such a success.

Glen Coppersmith discussed a case study around suicide risk prevention and highlighted the possible utility of looking outside the healthcare system for additional information. He looked into a few interesting findings from his own market research, which included a few unexpected results.