The UPOD team, based in the Central Diagnostic Laboratory of UMC Utrecht, is built around the Utrecht Patient Oriented Database (established in 2003) that includes routine care data, including e.g. laboratory values, measurements, and diagnoses, of all individuals that ever visited the UMCU. The UPOD team has extensive knowledge on how to turn meaningful data into actionable insights for clinical use, especially in the diagnostic field.
The UPOD group consists of around 25 data engineers/data managers, data scientists/researchers and students with diverse backgrounds. We combine expertise on routine care data, scientific research, implementation of healthcare innovations (including the regulatory framework) and health care processes.
Our data engineers have ample experience with extraction of ‘fit for purpose’ datasets our of routine care data for scientific research and healthcare innovation, which follows a GDPR-compliant and ISO 9001-certified multidisciplinary workflow.
Our researchers reuse routine care data in multidisciplinary teams based on clinical questions to improve diagnostics, through combining different data sources (integrated diagnostics) and data science methodology (with and without AI).
We collaborate with researchers and healthcare professionals inside and outside UMC Utrecht to develop our healthcare innovations as actionable insights, so they can be implemented and create value for healthcare.