
Welcome to our blog. This periodic blog on emerging themes related to the research use of health data invites project colleagues as well as acknowledged experts in their fields to share views on emerging themes in working with observational, or real world data and evidence generation.
Our field is evolving rapidly with reference to data, methodology, tools and skills, and governance aspects. We therefore hope that our blog will serve as a forum for the project and colleagues to stimulate the wider debate. EHDEN encourages you to participate in this discussion, as collaboration is one of the cornerstones to optimising evidence generation for the 21st century, impacting positively on clinical care and patient outcomes.

BLOG – Real World Data’s Expanding Role in Conducting Research & Lessons Learned from COVID-19
June 2022
My team and I are very pleased to see the COVID-19 virus waning thanks to vaccines (and mutations), and that we’re now in a much better place. However, it’s nevertheless still with us and there’s necessarily great interest in the long-term consequences of long COVID..


BLOG – An Inside Look at Open Science Community Management
March 2022
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.

BLOG – E-thons: paving the way for generating faster real world evidence
February 2022
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.

BLOG – 2022 Trends in Health Data and for EHDEN
January 2022
We at EHDEN hope that you had a recuperative break at the end of 2021, start of 2022, but of course this is well in the rear view mirror as we are already close to the end of January.