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

BLOG – Real World Data’s Expanding Role in Conducting Research & Lessons Learned from COVID-19

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

BLOG – Ensuring a successful EHDEN future

In the EHDEN project, sustainability and outreach were inherent in its design in Work Package 6 (WP6) right from the very beginning, which differentiated it from many other IMI projects. We always considered EHDEN to be a start-up within IMI with a post-project future, rather than having a project mentality with a start, middle and … Read more

BLOG – An Inside Look at Open Science Community Management

Open science is playing an increasingly important role in our rapidly changing world. Open science, as defined by the OECD, makes the primary outputs of publicly funded research results – publications and research data – publicly accessible in digital format with no or minimal restriction. It’s also about ensuring the principles of openness extend to … Read more

BLOG – E-thons: paving the way for generating faster real world evidence

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