What the programme covers
Outcome linkage can create stronger task evidence than an image or report alone, but timing and source coverage determine validity. The same event may represent a diagnostic confirmation, treatment decision or post-index outcome depending on the research question.
What a useful specification includes
A defensible request defines the clinical task, source evidence and acceptance criteria before patient-level data moves. The exact fields and thresholds depend on the intended model claim.
- Index examination and clinical episode
- Target outcome and acceptable evidence sources
- Pre-index and post-index observation windows
- Pathology, procedure, treatment or follow-up fields
- Competing outcomes, censoring and exclusions
- Population, geography and intended use
Quality and validation controls
Linked evidence remains traceable to the source event and timestamp. Derived outcome labels record the rule that produced them and preserve unknown or indeterminate states.
- Patient and encounter linkage
- Temporal ordering and window validation
- Outcome-source provenance
- Missingness and outside-system care
- Label leakage and post-index feature review
Availability, rights and delivery
A release can combine approved imaging, structured outcome tables and supporting evidence through pseudonymous identifiers, data dictionaries and lineage manifests.
Public pages describe a sourcing and engineering capability, not guaranteed ready inventory. Each release remains subject to verified programme inventory, programme-specific authorization, privacy review, technical acceptance and buyer licence terms.
Questions, answered directly.
Can pathology be linked to imaging?+
Potentially, when patient, anatomy and clinical timing can be resolved and the programme authorizes both sources.
Can outcomes serve as ground truth?+
Sometimes. The outcome definition and evidence strength must match the intended task.
What if an outcome happened outside the hospital?+
It may be unobserved. Source coverage and censoring rules should prevent unobserved events from being labelled as negative.
Is every linked field released?+
No. Data is minimized to fields necessary for the approved programme.