My brother, Rick Jones, who has died of cancer aged 61, was professor of chemical pathology and health informatics at the University of Leeds. He was involved in establishing the Yorkshire Centre for Health Informatics in 2001, which aims to bring together academic interests, industry and the NHS to develop modern health data. Rick also worked on the development of a joint BSc in computing for medicine and an MSc in health informatics introduced at Leeds in 2008.
He became a national expert on informatics in medicine, advising on the modernisation of pathology in the NHS. His work with colleagues on "big data" has contributed to the improvement of data standardisation within NHS systems, which should lead to the improvement of patient care.
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