Europe’s lead regulatory authority is very active in working with real work data (RWD) in its pursuit of its statutory goals of: Facilitate development and access to medicines Evaluate applications for marketing authorisation Monitor the safety of medicines across the life cycle Provide reliable information to patients and the public EMA is working towards and … Read more
Between January 13 and 17, approximately 40 people of all disciplines, from clinical to academic to Data Partners (all with data mapped to the OMOP common data model) gathered in Barcelona for the second EHDEN study-a-thon. This time, research questions were situated in the domain of Rheumatoid Arthritis as we set out to evaluate the … Read more
At the end of 2019, EHDEN launched the EHDEN ‘Directory of Service Providers’. EHDEN’s main objective is to create an EU-wide eco-system for federated analyses of real world data standardised to the OMOP CDM. By listing all EHDEN certified SMEs in this directory, we enable data partners to easily find the SME of their choice … Read more
The EHDEN consortium is pleased to announce that a total of 20 data partners have been selected in the first open call for data partners. Having received a total of 29 eligible applications, these 20 applications were selected by the EHDEN Data Source Prioritisation Committee. Combined, the 20 selected data partners represent over 150 million … Read more
José Luis Oliveira Associate Professor in Computer Science DETI/IEETA, University of Aveiro (PT) Introduce yourself and your institution? I’m associate professor at the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the University of Aveiro (UAVR), Portugal. I’m also co-founder of BMD Software, an SME-dedicated to the development of medical imaging solutions, biomedical applications, and knowledge extraction in health and life … Read more
On 4-5 December, one of the year’s major real-world data events took place again in Basel, Switzerland: BioDataWorld 2019. Among the almost 2,000 attendees coming from 28 countries, the IMI’s (Innovative Medicines Initiative) BD4BO (Big Data For Better Outcomes) project teams (EHDEN, HARMONY, BigData@Heart, PIONEER and ROADMAP) collaborated to raise awareness about their work and … Read more
Michael Arend VP, R&D IT Pharma Business Partner RWE, Digital Health, and External Innovation Bayer AG Introduce yourself and your company? I’m Michael Arend and I work in Bayer’s Research & Development IT team as business partner for the observational research functions at Bayer Pharmaceutical. My main assignments are on Real World Data & Evidence, … Read more