As the EHDEN project moves ahead in its fourth year, its Year 3 Annual Report is now available. The EHDEN team, and on behalf of the Consortium, would like to deeply thank everyone that contributed to our success, especially under the very challenging circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many milestones were met or eclipsed over … Read more
We at EHDEN consider the site to be the go-to source for useful information about EHDEN, and our network of Data Partners & SMEs. Most importantly it now serves to better showcase the advances we, and in collaboration with our OHDSI colleagues, have already made and will continue to make in generating real world evidence … Read more
In the EHDEN project, sustainability and outreach were inherent in its design in Work Package 6 (WP6) right from the very beginning, which differentiated it from many other IMI projects. We always considered EHDEN to be a start-up within IMI with a post-project future, rather than having a project mentality with a start, middle and … Read more
Concepts like real world data, federated data networks, and common data models can be challenging for non-experts to understand. To this end, the European Patients’ Forum (EPF) and EHDEN collaborated to create three introductory modules that aim to provide non-experts, particularly patients and citizens, with the knowledge they need to understand these terms. They will … Read more
EHDEN was pleased to be a contributor to the series of Health Data Round Tables convened by the Digital Health Society (DHS) and the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD), 2020 to date, and the following is their summary report with links to the round table reports: Health Data Round Tables Society needs … Read more
Open science is playing an increasingly important role in our rapidly changing world. Open science, as defined by the OECD, makes the primary outputs of publicly funded research results – publications and research data – publicly accessible in digital format with no or minimal restriction. It’s also about ensuring the principles of openness extend to … Read more
BMJ Press Release: Study finds no increased risk of rare neurological events after COVID vaccination An increased risk was, however, seen after COVID-19 infection A study of more than eight million people published by The BMJ today finds no increased risk of rare neurological events after COVID-19 vaccination. An increased risk of Bell’s palsy (facial … Read more
Following three successful open calls, EHDEN launches the 4th and final open call for SMEs to apply for training and certification on converting health data from various formats to the OMOP common data model. Today, in Europe, we are challenged to generate insights and evidence from real world clinical data at scale, to support patients, … Read more
With the European Health Evidence & Data Network (EHDEN) now in its third year, efforts are more than ever being focused on the second “E” – generating evidence. After its first successful “evidence-a-thon” or e-thon held in July 2021, a second e-thon with five EHDEN Data Partners (DPs) – CPRD, ULSM, FIIBAP, MEDAMAN and IU … Read more
The Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) will work closely with the European Medicines Agency on the establishment of the Coordination Centre for the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU®). The contract was awarded to Erasmus MC under the leadership of Professor Peter Rijnbeek, Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics, following … Read more