Introduction¶

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Common Terms¶

NIHR - NHS National Institute for Health Research http://www.nihr.ac.uk/
HIC - Health Informatics Collaborative http://www.nihr.ac.uk/about/hic.htm
TRA - Renal Transplantation Theme (one of five themes within the HIC project)
ACS - Acute Coronary Syndromes (another theme)
CAN - Ovarian Cancer theme
HEP - Hepititis theme
ICU - Critical Care theme
GSTT - Guy's and St Thomas Trust, one of the TRA theme partners, and theme lead

NIHR Website - single page overview: http://www.nihr.ac.uk/about/hic.htm
NIHR Google Hub - a shared Google instance related to a @nihr.ac.uk address. Not very much on there at all.
Old BRC/HIC shared documents - via the Google Hub, in Shared with me -> OxBRC. Has a fair amount of dated content. Barely updated since 2014.
New BRC/HIC shared documents - also via the Google Hub, but this time in My Drive -> HIC Shared Documents. More current documentation, but still a dearth of Transplantation information (mostly due to there being little work done on it to date)
Ryan's GitLab project - From his work to use Talend Open Studio to map NHS BT data to the HIC xsd specification.
The Talend files can be simplified down to just looking at the talend_workspace/NHIC_TRA_OXFORD/process/NHSBT_to_XML_0.1.item file, and using the OutputTrees element (ln1351 onwards) as the main guide.
There are some data cleanup steps which can be seen as simple if functions within the code, for example replacing "." with null in some cases.
BRC Bitbucket repositories - some more code locations for things done in the BRC
More files from Ryan with a Mapping XLSX file in from an unknown source from early on in the project that translates NHSBT file into XSD headings.

Local files in ~/Documents/NHIC. Need a repository workspace setting up for storing of content off of laptop.
Awaiting some feedback on whether to set up a BRC Gitlab instance
Will do a local workspace and project for the time being
PC Laptop that works on the NHS network. Still needs setting up and credentials set.