What are the sources of personal data used by HIC?
Most of the data that we use comes from NHS Tayside or from ISD Scotland. A full list of all of the data sources is available here. There are two basic types of data: • Data already available in electronic form. These may be data that are collected nationally (for example the Scottish Morbidity Record of inpatient or outpatient episodes) or they may be local to Tayside (for example laboratory test results on Central Vision). • Data that have to be entered from paper records. The largest single example is the dataset of all medicines dispensed from community pharmacies in Tayside. HIC routinely adds the CHI number to the information about the drugs dispensed on all prescriptions, which provides a unique resource for medicines management as well as research. Other examples are data that have been entered for specific projects, which require more detail than is available in electronic data sources.
