Vision, mission, and values

Vision

The EHDEN Foundation aspires to be the trusted key actor in Europe to facilitate and accelerate the generation of high-quality real-world evidence to improve healthcare of patients.

Values

Innovative, professional, inclusive, independent, trustworthy, actionable, efficient, passionate

Mission

Our mission is to operationalise a new paradigm for the discovery and analysis of health data, building on a large-scale federated network of data sources standardised to the OMOP CDM.

Objectives

The EHDEN Foundation is committed to reducing the time needed to provide answers in real world, health research. It is achieving this by developing the required infrastructure in a federated network at scale across Europe, collaboration on research methodologies, and education in an open science collaboration.

 

Foundational pillars

 

Community

To implement its vision, the EHDEN Foundation will maintain the EHDEN Catalogue and EHDEN Academy, create research opportunities for multiple stakeholders, execute federated studies and support methodological and technical developments to further expand and improve the Data Partner Network in strong collaboration with the OHDSI community.

 

Research

Through research, the EHDEN Foundation supports the generation of reliable, transparent, and reproducible real‑world evidence across Europe, building on a large network of harmonised health data partners and shared methodological standards. By connecting academia, industry, and data partners, EHDEN enables collaborative research that addresses real‑world healthcare questions at scale and delivers evidence for public benefit.

The EHDEN Foundation network gathers over 100 Data Partners mapped to OMOP CDM, who have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and/or a Framework Agreement with the EHDEN Foundation.

Advisory
Data Landscaping
Feasibility
Study Design
Studies
Disease Epidemiology
Drug Utilisation
Drug Safety/Effectiveness
Research Programmes
Neuroscience
Oncology
Other
Training
Study-a-thon
Online Training
On-site Training