The EHDEN project, which launched in November 2018, wrapped-up its initial phase at a two-day event on 9/10 October in Barcelona. The overarching theme of Day 1 was “celebration” in which a large group of the EHDEN Community consisting of Consortium Members, SMEs, and Data Partners came together to look back at EHDEN’s many … Read more
We are excited to announce that EHDEN will be hosting a Symposium in Barcelona, Spain on 10 October 2024. As the EHDEN IHI 2 project formally ends and transitions to the EHDEN Foundation, the Symposium will celebrate our collective accomplishments, their impact on European healthcare – and look forward to how we will sustain them … Read more
Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a silent public health issue, impacting health and quality of life of millions of women across the globe. Diagnosis and treatment are often delayed, with up to 54% of women with HMB never receiving either. To address this, a two-day study-a-thon was held with eleven EHDEN Data Partners (DPs) in … Read more
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
Renske Los is assistant professor at the department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and co-lead of OHDSI NL. Together with Prof. Peter Rijnbeek she helps onboard new national nodes to the OHDSI Europe chapter. How do national nodes evolve and why are they important? Since 2021, national nodes have … Read more
Portugal has been an active contributor to the building of an EU-wide ecosystem for the federated analyses of real world data standardised to the OMOP Common Data Model – and this thanks in no small part to the EHDEN SME – MTG Research & Development Lab. EHDEN spoke with MTG’s Founder, Tiago Taveira-Gomes, MD ME … Read more
As EHDEN moves ahead in its fifth and final year as an IMI project, its Year 4 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. Many milestones were met or eclipsed over the course of the year. … Read more
The EHDEN Academy, in collaboration with our guest lecturer Jeroen Jansen (Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California – San Francisco) and NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), is thrilled to announce the launch of our new course: Applied Cost-Effectiveness Modeling with R. The course aims to provide … Read more
DARWIN EU®, the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network, has accomplished its first year of establishment. Following the set-up of the DARWIN EU® Coordination Centre in February 2022, the first ten Data Partners were onboarded. We are proud that multiple data sources included in this first year have been mapped to the OMOP CDM … Read more
EHDEN Data Partners from nine countries and others recently came together to collaborate on a large-scale study on the counterfactual effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection in unvaccinated subjects.