Data types

Smart-Health brings together data from smartphone and wearables, linked NHS health records and lifestyle questionnaires.

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Data types

The data available is outlined below.

Smartphone and wearable data

  • Step count
  • Heart rate
  • Sleep patterns
  • GPS information (opt-in)

NHS Health Records

  • Emergency Services
  • Community Services
  • Medicines Dispensed in Primary Care
  • NHS Pathways Telephone Triage (NHS 111 and 999 calls)
  • Primary Care (GP appointments)
  • Secondary Care (Hospital Services)
  • Maternity Services
  • Mental Health Services
  • Civil Registration of Deaths

On a project-by-project basis

  • Lab test results
  • Diagnostic imaging
  • Radiology reports

Questionnaire (baseline)

  • Demographic information
  • Socio-economic status
  • Household and living status
  • Mental Health
  • Life satisfaction
  • Lifestyle and behaviours

Questionnaires (quarterly)

  • Changes to health
  • Life satisfaction
  • Lifestyle and behaviours
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