In recent years, and much like we are witnessing across the rest of Europe, Italy has seen a significant surge in interest in OHDSI and the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM). As the R&D Manager at BIOMERIS, I’ve observed this trend across several hospitals and scientific organisations, including registries, as well as among various stakeholders … Read more
edenceHealth is an EHDEN small-to-medium enterprise (SME) based in Kontich (Antwerp), Belgium. We were among the first five SMEs to be certified by EHDEN in September 2019, and we have since had the opportunity to work with many EHDEN Data Partners. Assisting EHDEN Data Partners in mapping their data to the OMOP Common Data Model … Read more
OHDSI presents a transformative opportunity for how we teach informatics. I serve as the director of education for the Biomedical Informatics graduate training programmes at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and have incorporated OHDSI into our graduate training for the past three years. Biomedical Informatics is an applied multidisciplinary field on the use of … Read more
With a substantial proportion of the European population having had COVID-19 at some point in the previous years, long-term complications are becoming increasingly prevalent. Studies suggest that about one out of ten people do not fully recover from their acute disease, and present ongoing symptoms for three months or longer. In summer 2022, the EHDEN Evidence Generation Fund … Read more
Key Findings To our knowledge this is the largest COVID-19 study to date with more than twenty-four million COVID-19 patients and twenty-six databases across three continents. This study provides essential context on the complications in unvaccinated subjects and shows a striking increase in risk of outcomes after COVID-19, like pulmonary embolism (x12), disseminated intravascular coagulation … 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.
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
My team and I are very pleased to see the COVID-19 virus waning thanks to vaccines (and mutations), and that we’re now in a much better place. However, it’s nevertheless still with us and there’s necessarily great interest in the long-term consequences of long COVID, i.e., infection/re-infection, infection with different variants, infection with people vaccinated, … Read more
With the European Health Evidence & Data Network (EHDEN) now in its third year, efforts are more than ever being focused on the second “E” – generating evidence. After its first successful “evidence-a-thon” or e-thon held in July 2021, a second e-thon with five EHDEN Data Partners (DPs) – CPRD, ULSM, FIIBAP, MEDAMAN and IU … Read more
We at EHDEN hope that you had a recuperative break at the end of 2021, start of 2022, but of course this is well in the rear view mirror as we are already close to the end of January. The project is already of course well immersed in our plans for the coming year, in … Read more