Safeguarding against critical medicines’ shortage

Access to essential medicines is on the decline in Europe and this is having a harmful impact on patient health by increasing mortality, adverse events and therapy errors. A number of national and international initiatives have been undertaken to address these shortages, and since 2016, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published a public catalogue … Read more

BLOG – FinOMOP consortium – a national data resource for improved research and health care management across Finland

Mapping Finnish medical terms into the OMOP Common Data Model started as research collaboration in 2020. The exciting possibility to use numerous OHDSI-developed tools in cohort-building, case-control comparisons, visualisations, and analytics expanded quickly across all Finnish University Hospitals, University of Helsinki, and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Due to the common need … Read more