Amir Mehrkar
Senior Clinical Researcher
Amir is a general practitioner with over 10 years of experience in senior leadership roles in health technology. This includes: interim Chief Medical Officer of NHS Digital, where Amir wrote the organisation’s clinical informatics governance framework; CCIO of Orion Health (EMEA) and CCIO of one of the UK’s biggest shared care records; co-founder of a free educational event (INTEROPSUMMIT), and INTEROPen, the UK’s first interoperability community, with over 300 supplier and NHS organisations as members, where Amir led the creation of the UK’s first interoperability data standards in FHIR.
Papers by Amir Mehrkar
(PRE-PRINT) Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records: a cohort study in 25 million patients’ records at source using OpenSAFELY
(PRE-PRINT) Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
(PRE-PRINT) Effect of the 2022 COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign in 50 year olds in England: regression discontinuity analysis in OpenSAFELY
(PRE-PRINT) Fit notes associated with COVID-19 in 24 million patients’ primary care records: A cohort study in OpenSAFELY-TPP.
(PRE-PRINT) The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY-TPP analysis of 20 million adult electronic health records.
Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study using 48 million adults’ primary care records in England through OpenSAFELY
Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics
Challenges in Estimating the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Using Observational Data
Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups in England from 2020 to 2022: a retrospective cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform
Comparative effectiveness of BNT162b2 versus mRNA-1273 covid-19 vaccine boosting in England: matched cohort study in OpenSAFELY-TPP
First dose COVID-19 vaccine coverage amongst adolescents and children in England: an analysis of 3.21 million patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY
(PRE-PRINT) OpenSAFELY: Do adults prescribed Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have an increased risk of death from COVID-19?
Better use of data and digital offer rapid opportunities to address covid-19
Blogs by Amir Mehrkar
