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Our colleagues and administrative data holders in New Brunswick have rebranded to DataNB<\/a> (formerly NB Institute for Research, Data and Training). \u201cWe have become synonymous with data \u2013 whether it\u2019s training data analysts, holding provincial data or providing data access for research \u2013 so the name change just made sense,\u201d said founding director Dr. Ted McDonald<\/a><\/strong>, a member of Health Data Research Network<\/a><\/strong> Canada\u2019s Executive Committee. For the full announcement, please visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, a collaboration between Atlantic PATH and DataNB created a data linkage that made predicting chronic disease faster and simpler. \u201cI am absolutely thrilled to see these linkages happen,\u201d said Dr. Robin Urquhart, Atlantic PATH Scientific<\/strong> Director.<\/strong> \u201cAtlantic PATH is an incredibly rich resource to understand the health of Atlantic Canadians and all of the different factors, like our biology, behaviours, and environments, that impact our health. This new linkage activity makes our resource more powerful, giving us access to different sources of data to answer complex health questions affecting all Atlantic
Canadians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only is this historical, record-level data linkage activity, this work is crucial for Atlantic Canada, which has among the country\u2019s highest rates of chronic disease and cancer,\u201d said Dr. McDonald<\/strong> \u201cCritically, it will enable researchers to focus on studies related to cancer and chronic disease that cannot be undertaken without linking the separate data sources. The data linkage has other important implications too, such as the potential to inform health policy and improve detection, prevention and treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For additional information about data access, Atlantic PATH and DataNB, please reach out to us directly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Our colleagues and administrative data holders in New Brunswick have rebranded to DataNB (formerly NB Institute for Research, Data and Training). \u201cWe have become synonymous with data \u2013 whether it\u2019s training data analysts, holding provincial data or providing data access for research \u2013 so the name change just made sense,\u201d said founding director Dr. Ted McDonald, a member of Health Data Research Network Canada\u2019s Executive Committee. For the full announcement, please visit here. In 2024, a collaboration between Atlantic PATH and DataNB created a data linkage that made predicting chronic disease faster and simpler. \u201cI am absolutely thrilled to see these linkages happen,\u201d said Dr. Robin Urquhart, Atlantic PATH Scientific Director. \u201cAtlantic PATH is an incredibly rich resource to understand the health of Atlantic Canadians and all of the different factors, like our biology, behaviours, and environments, that impact our health. This new linkage activity makes our resource more powerful, giving us access to different sources of data to answer complex health questions affecting all AtlanticCanadians.\u201d \u201cNot only is this historical, record-level data linkage activity, this work is crucial for Atlantic Canada, which has among the country\u2019s highest rates of chronic disease and cancer,\u201d said Dr. McDonald \u201cCritically, it will enable researchers to focus on studies related to cancer and chronic disease that cannot be undertaken without linking the separate data sources. The data linkage has other important implications too, such as the potential to inform health policy and improve detection, prevention and treatment.\u201d For additional information about data access, Atlantic PATH and DataNB, please reach out to us directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"default","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,224,152,37,166,171],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atlantic-path","tag-datanb","tag-hdrn","tag-health-research","tag-linkage","tag-nbirdt"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"pathwp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}