19th October 2021, Brussels, Belgium: EHDEN is delighted to have convened our Certification meeting, 27 September – 1 October for our third cohort of SMEs from Call #3 in March 2021. Thank you to our SME colleagues, and to EHDEN colleagues who were instrumental in this process.
We had a considerable response earlier in the year, and from this we selected the 22 SMEs who joined us for the certification process. Our SMEs partners are very diverse in geography and organisation, and bring with them a wealth of experiences in working with health data, standardisation and interoperability.
The SMEs had completed the ETL learning pathway in the EHDEN Academy over the summer period, with great feedback, and continued in the certification meeting with contextual sessions on the OHDSI research framework, ETLs and observational methodologies, as well as on specific tooling used. The agenda is an expanded version of prior meetings, such as a prior one here.
A specific dataset was explored as a use case to evaluate the SME’s ability to conduct an initial ETL through the remainder of the week, culminating in the results by the latter end, and announcement of the results.
We are very pleased to have the following 21 SMEs join us in the EHDEN journey, and who have been certified, adding to the 26 in the SME Catalogue imminently and almost doubling the total of SMEs to 47 now in 19 countries across Europe:
| Aridhia Informatics | United Kingdom |
| Arkhn | France |
| Covariance | Greece |
| DataRiver Srl Oy | Italy |
| Healthware Group S.r.l | Italy |
| Heliant | Serbia |
| IOMED Medical Solutions | Spain |
| Lifebit Biotech Ltd | United Kingdom |
| LynxCare Clinical Informatics NV | The Netherlands |
| Magalhaes e Taveira-Gomes Sociedade Medica Lda | Portugal |
| Medaman | Belgium |
| Med'Art | France |
| Oncodesign | France |
| Orco SA | Greece |
| P.G.M.D. Consulting S.r.l. | Italy |
| Productivity Leap | Finland |
| Promptly | Portugal |
| SciForce Ukraine | Ukraine |
| SEMICROL | Spain |
| Tiro.health | Belgium |
| Truewind - Sistemas de informação SA | Portugal |
All of these SMEs will be available for Data Partners to contact with for their ETL cycles, but also for others interested in mapping their source data to the OMOP common data model. We also look forward to collaborating with them, as we have our first two SME cohorts, in working with Data Partners, but also in tools, methods and skills development, also within the wider OHDSI community.
Congratulations to all our SME colleagues for their hard work in attaining certification. EHDEN is rightfully proud of all our SMEs, and of this unique programme for resourcing transition to the OMOP common data model in Europe at scale.