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

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

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

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

EHDEN/OHDSI Feature in COVID-19 Real-World Evidence Primer

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO in March of 2020 and EHDEN was formally launched in November 2018. With a solid foundation of Data Partners in place by early 2020, and since then, EHDEN has been collaborating with OHDSI (Observational Health Data Science and Informatics), our growing base of Data Partners, and other … Read more

EHDEN Ethical Advisory Board (EAB), and colleagues, publish new conceptual, socio-technical framework supporting research via federated data networks: Concentric Circles View

5th October 2022, Brussels, Belgium: Working with real word data is not just about the data itself, nor only technical, methodological, or platform aspects, but also governance, ethical and legal compliance. Ensuring citizen or patient protection, privacy and meeting legal requirements are critical elements, requiring trust, trustworthiness and reliance on appropriate systems and appropriate involvement … Read more

Uppsala Monitoring Centre/EHDEN pharmacovigilance evidence-a-thon

See also the accompanying article in Uppsala Reports here. The week of 5 September had more than thirty colleagues from the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC), EHDEN, DARWIN EU, and EHDEN Data Partners come together in Uppsala, Sweden to take part in the UMC/EHDEN pharmacovigilance evidence-a-thon. The specific objective of this IMI EHDEN-sponsored event was to … Read more

7th and FINAL Open Call for European Data Partners wishing to map source data to OMOP CDM and collaborative research – Portal Will Open Wednesday 12th Oct 2022

EHDEN Launches the 7th, final, Open Call for European Data Partners aiming to receive funding and support in mapping their healthcare data to the OMOP common data model – with EUR1 million budget, in partnership with Health Data Research UK (supporting UK applicants), with up to GBP300,000. 3rd October 2022, Brussels, Belgium: The EHDEN Consortium … Read more

EHDEN welcomes 17 Certified SMEs after the fourth and final call – now 64 certified SMEs in 22 countries

27th September 2022, Brussels, Belgium: Following the closure of its fourth and final call, which ran from 15 March – 16 April 2022, EHDEN is proud to welcome 17 newly certified Small-to-Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to join us in the EHDEN journey. This expands the SME Catalogue with the 47 SMEs from the prior three calls, … Read more

Series 1 EHDEN Academy Courses for Non-Experts Complete

  With module 3 now posted, EHDEN (European Health Data & Evidence Network), together with the European Patients’ Forum, has completed its initial series of easy-to-understand, animated courses for non-experts as part of the EHDEN Academy course offering. These three introductory courses are designed to familiarise non-experts with the basics of health data in terms … Read more

EHDEN Research Coordinator receives ISPE Special Award for Epidemiology and Public Health

Brussels, Belgium, 5th September 2022: We are delighted to announce and celebrate the special award from the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) for recognisable and impactful contributions to public health during the COVID-19 pandemic awarded to Prof Dani Prieto-Alhambra, EHDEN’s Research Coordinator, Professor of Pharmaco and Device Epidemiology, NDORMS, University of Oxford, and Professor, Real … Read more