Prerequisites for FlowEHR

1 The skills you need

• Familiarity with Python programming for data science tasks. Much of the design of the platform is orientated to support those with strong SQL skills, or those with strong R skills, but for now you will find that the examples and the work are biased toward Python.

2 The permissions you need

• We assume that you are working in a direct care role and therefore have rights to access identifiable data.

3 The resources you need

• Some time and some patience!

4 Recommendations

We’re not telling you to do the following, but these are the sort of things you might want to consider if you hit problems.

• Try using Microsoft Edge as your browser for working with the TRE. It just seems to work better with this tooling.
• Pay attention to the two-factor authentication. You’re likely to end up with more than one. At the minumum, you’ll have one for NHS.net and you’ll need one for the TRE (e.g. https://uclhtredev.uksouth.cloudapp.azure.com/)

It’s going to get confusing at times. There’s a lot of new terminology. Please check-out the FAQ.