Set-up overview

Author

Steve Harris

Published

March 29, 2023

Modified

April 26, 2023

You are likely to need the following tools and services

1 Tools

2 Services

3 How to set-up FlowEHR on Azure

See the onboarding for the data scientist docs for more details.

  • You will be working from your laptop, and interacting through a browser (e.g. Edge, Chrome etc.)
  • Ask your FlowEHR administrator for access to the Azure TRE landing zone. They will provide you with a link to the landing page, and add your NHS.net credentials to the list of approved users.
    • Login using your NHS.net email. You will need to have 2-factor authentication enabled
    • Set-up a virtual machine from one of the provided templates. Details in the Azure TRE docs
  • Inbound and outbound traffic to the TRE is strictly controlled so you will find the following services to enable you to work
    • a mirror of Python (via Conda, and PyPi), R and other package managers provided by Nexus
    • an internal Git server provided by Gitea
    • an airlock for moving items into and out from the TRE. Local polices will enforce controls to protect data, and the environment.

You should find yourself with a suite of open source tools designed for modern data science tasks:

  • Jupyter
  • RStudio
  • Integrated Development Environments (e.g. PyCharm) and text editors (e.g. VS Code)
  • A database GUI

See also