National data analytics platform speeds up research, ensures safety of personal info

A local study made the surprising finding that, compared with pregnant women with gestational diabetes, those without gestational diabetes actually incurred higher hospital expenses in the last three months of their pregnancy.

The latter spent more than an average of $1,300 on hospitalisation in the later stages of their pregnancies, possibly for conditions that were not detected earlier.

The research team from A*Star analysed its own study data of the mother-child pairs, as well as data it obtained from national databases through a national analytics platform – the Trusted Research and Real World-Data Utilisation and Sharing Tech (TRUST) platform.

This platform, which ensured the data was anonymised and protected before it was made available to the team, has been used by researchers in some 70 projects since it was implemented in November 2022.

Read more here (ST): https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/national-data-analytics-platform-speeds-up-research-ensures-safety-of-personal-info