Peter Rijnbeek

EHDEN adds 22 Data Partners from final Call #7 in 13 countries, 5 in collaboration with HDR UK, and overall network grows to 187, mapping ~830 million records to the OMOP Common Data Model

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The EHDEN Consortium is delighted with the response to our final Data Partner Call #7, and are pleased to announce 22 applicants have been selected from 13 countries to join the EHDEN network. This was our most competitive call to date, with 158 applications from 30 countries, meaning the Data Source Prioritisation Committee (DSPC) had … Read more

Paper published in JAMIA Open journal on evaluating a novel approach to stimulate open science collaborations

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The research process to analyse real world data that generates real world evidence is generally time-consuming, requiring considerable efforts and resources and planning over an extended period of time before its results can be shared, such as via publications. Meanwhile, patients, clinicians, and healthcare providers need evidence to support decision-making from individual treatment to populations … Read more

Protecting people while using their health data for research, a framework for understanding relative responsibilities and roles

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Introduction & why this paper was written A publication in Frontiers in Big Data was posted on 16 September, 2022: “A concentric circles view of health data relations facilitates understanding of sociotechnical challenges for learning health systems and the role of federated data networks”. The authors set out a model of data systems that they … Read more

DARWIN EU® welcomes first data partners

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EMA has selected the first set of data partners to collaborate with DARWIN EU®, the Data Analysis and Real-World Interrogation Network. The data available to these partners will be used for studies to generate real-world evidence that will support scientific evaluations and regulatory decision making. Real-world evidence refers to information derived from analysis of real-world data, … Read more

EHDEN, NICE and Health Technology Assessment use of RWD for RWE highlighted at ISPOR 2022, Vienna

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EHDEN colleagues were very active at  one of the key Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR)conferences in Europe, The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) European meeting, held in Vienna, 6-9th November 2022, the first in-person in Europe since 2019. Within the domain of Health Technology Assessment (HTA), our colleagues in work … Read more

Regulators are formally adopting real world evidence, when will health technology assessment?

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On Monday 31st October, NICE hosted a virtual workshop entitled ‘Regulators are formally adopting real world evidence, when will health technology assessment?’. It was organised as part of our work within the Innovative Medicines Initiative grant-funded project European Health Data & Evidence Network (EHDEN), in collaboration with GetReal Institute. The half-day workshop, moderated by Dr … Read more

Record response for our 7th and final open call for Data Partners!

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Between 12 October and 11 November, the EHDEN consortium held its seventh and final open call for Data Partners. We are delighted to announce that this call had an unprecedented number of responses, not only for the number of applications, 158, but also in terms of its wide geographic coverage with 30 European countries being … Read more

OHDSI Global Symposium, Rockville, Maryland US, 14-16th October 2022

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EHDEN colleagues were delighted to participate and present at this year’s OHDSI Symposium, the first in person following the COVID-19 lockdowns. With more than 400 colleagues from around the world, the three days were split into a whole day conference, an all-day tutorial and then work group meetings and exposure of these to OHDSI colleagues. … Read more

EHDEN joins stakeholders’ consensus response to the proposed European Health Data Space

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On 20 October, EHDEN joined a group of 29 diverse and representative European stakeholders in welcoming the European Commission’s proposal on the European Health Data Space (EHDS). The stakeholders, which include medical professional and research organisations, patient representatives, industry associations and data collaborations strongly support the aims of the EHDS as proposed by the European … Read more