We are delighted with the outcome of all our Data Partner calls to date, and the final call #7, which has been the most competitive of them all. We are now working with 187 Data Partners across 29 countries in EHDEN. We have clearly had a big impact on improving interoperability within countries and across Europe. I am proud that EHDEN is fostering a real paradigm shift to generate reliable evidence that is improving patient care at an unprecedented scale. A big thank you to all EHDEN consortium partners, the certified SMEs, and the Data Partners for all their efforts. This is just the start of a very interesting and impactful journey ahead for all stakeholders.
Prof Peter Rijnbeek
As EHDEN Research Coordinator, and Chair of the Data Source Prioritisation Committee, it has been my privilege to work with our Committee Members, and to review all our 563 applications to date, and the 158 in call #7. Thank you to all our applicants across 30 countries, and it’s always bittersweet that we cannot select all applicants, with a limited budget. It has also been a very positive experience collaborating with HDR UK in our last call with UK applicants. We do believe we now have a remarkable open science network of Data Partners uniquely in Europe, and are starting to see the emerging evidence generation pointing to this expanding as we move into sustainability, post-IMI in 2024. EHDEN will continue to grow.
Prof Daniel Prieto-Alhambra
EHDEN has gone way beyond the aspirations when the IMI call topic was being developed in 2017/2018, and the EFPIA Partners and Pharma R&D Industry are delighted to have supported and invested in EHDEN to reach today’s outcome. Gratitude to our applicants across all seven calls, the DSPC Review Committee and project management colleagues who made all this happen. As a public private consortium we are looking forward to the potential for collaborative evidence generation on real world therapeutic outcomes and the impact for patients and providers. Furthermore, our memorandum of understanding and partnership with HDR UK on co-supporting UK applicants has been a good model for the future. EHDEN is a unique experience globally.
Nigel Hughes
It has been a real pleasure to run this last Data Partner call in collaboration with EHDEN, and we are delighted to be funding five new UK data partners. The enthusiasm, expertise and activity of the EHDEN network demonstrates how important it is to join forces to develop methods, standards and tools to drive better use of data. Through this new collaboration between the UK Health Data Research Alliance and the EHDEN network, we will bring communities together to transform datasets to the OMOP common data model, which is an important step to enable federated analytics for research and innovations that improve people’s lives.
