A new national database could help relieve the misery of miscarriage for thousands of women.
Researchers from the University of Warwick's Institute of Digital Healthcare (IDH) are using data to help discover why some pregnancies fail.
The initiative is part of the
A new national database could help relieve the misery of miscarriage for thousands of women.
Researchers from the University of Warwick's Institute of Digital Healthcare (IDH) are using data to help discover why some pregnancies fail.
The initiative is part of the National Tommy's Centre for Early Miscarriage Care and Research (NEMC) which is the first in the UK - and the largest in Europe. The University of Warwick has been chosen as a partner, together with the University of Birmingham and Imperial College London. The NEMC is funded by Tommy's, the baby and pregnancy charity
The team at IDH is led by Professor Theo Arvanitis, Chair in e-Health Innovation and Head of Research. He said: "Around 250,000 miscarriages occur every year, and roughly a third of women suffer more than one of these traumatic events. We'll also be creating a national database, initially by taking information from all three centres.
"Once we've brought together all the existing online clinical data, we can add new data so it will effectively act as a registry for information on miscarriages. We'll then be able to harness the power of this data to identify the major influences on this condition."
An online electronic patient record system will be designed and constructed by IDH which will link into three Tommy's Centres (in Coventry, Birmingham and London). The clinical details and histories of women attending the centres will be entered or uploaded from existing hospital systems into the 