The EHDEN consortium is pleased to announce that a total of 20 data partners have been selected in the first open call for data partners. Having received a total of 29 eligible applications, these 20 applications were selected by the EHDEN Data Source Prioritisation Committee. Combined, the 20 selected data partners represent over 150 million … Read more
José Luis Oliveira Associate Professor in Computer Science DETI/IEETA, University of Aveiro (PT) Introduce yourself and your institution? I’m associate professor at the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the University of Aveiro (UAVR), Portugal. I’m also co-founder of BMD Software, an SME-dedicated to the development of medical imaging solutions, biomedical applications, and knowledge extraction in health and life … Read more
On 4-5 December, one of the year’s major real-world data events took place again in Basel, Switzerland: BioDataWorld 2019. Among the almost 2,000 attendees coming from 28 countries, the IMI’s (Innovative Medicines Initiative) BD4BO (Big Data For Better Outcomes) project teams (EHDEN, HARMONY, BigData@Heart, PIONEER and ROADMAP) collaborated to raise awareness about their work and … Read more
Michael Arend VP, R&D IT Pharma Business Partner RWE, Digital Health, and External Innovation Bayer AG Introduce yourself and your company? I’m Michael Arend and I work in Bayer’s Research & Development IT team as business partner for the observational research functions at Bayer Pharmaceutical. My main assignments are on Real World Data & Evidence, … Read more
On 9-10 December, EHDEN welcomed the second batch of six SMEs to the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. During these two days, the SMEs were certified by EHDEN for their knowledge on standardising health data to the OMOP common data model (CDM) and the installation of the technical infrastructure. With this second batch of six … Read more
Brussels, November 2019 – The European Patients’ Forum (EPF), the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD) and other key players from the health data communities launched the ‘Data Saves Lives’ Initiative at the EPF’s Congress in Brussels on the 12 November 2019. Data Saves Lives is a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to raise … Read more
Oxford, 7th November 2019: The IMI European Health Data & Evidence Network (EHDEN) project is pleased to announce the publication of the results of its first ‘study-a-thon’ in Lancet Rheumatology the effectiveness and safety associated with unicompartmental versus total knee replacement, a milestone after its first year.1 The choice of which type of knee replacement … Read more
On Monday September 30th and Tuesday October 1st, EHDEN invited a first group of five SMEs at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). During these 2 days, these SME were certified by EHDEN for their knowledge on standardising health data to the OMOP common data model (CDM) and the installation of the technical … Read more
The 5th edition of the OHDSI Symposium took place between Sunday September 15th and Tuesday September 17th at North Bethesda (Maryland, US). This year, 425 people attended the conference of which around one third were first time attendees. As usual, the conference had 1 day which is packed with interesting keynote talks, panel discussions and … Read more
Between September 1st and September 15th, the EHDEN consortium held its first ever, pilot open call for Data Sources. We are delighted to announce that the response to our call has exceeded our expectations as 28 data partners did submit their application. These applicants cover 10 different countries throughout Europe, offering a diverse geographic spread. … Read more