Part 2 of a 3 part series on the European Health Data Evidence Network, or EHDEN for short. Are you curious to understand the journey from health data to health outcomes? In this episode, we are joined by Daniel Prieto Alhambra, an expert in Real World Evidence and Open Science. He is Professor of Pharmaco- … Read more
Part 1 of a 3 part series on the European Health Data Evidence Network, or EHDEN for short. Are you curious to learn the basics of health data? How we use health data today, and how to maximise its potential for tomorrow? In this episode, we are joined by Peter Rijnbeek, Associate Professor of Health … Read more
The Covid-19 pandemic underscores the need for high-quality health data that is readily deployed. Europe’s early epidemiological assessments at the start of the pandemic projected infection and mortality rates by orders of magnitude in error. Once the pandemic was in full swing, official statistics in most European countries underreported coronavirus-related deaths. More recently, the retraction of two separate clinical … Read more
The latest edition of ‘Open Access Government’ features Nigel Hughes, our EFPIA co-lead, who discusses EHDEN and how it fits in an environment of AI hype, socio-political unrest and healthcare demands. The journal can be reached via here (with EHDEN featured on page 19-21), or you can download the copy of the EHDEN article directly … Read more
The ambitions of the EHDEN project are high. We aim to standardise more than 100 million patient records across Europe from different geographic areas and different data sources over the coming five years. Mapping of healthcare data to the OMOP-CDM will facilitate the re-use for a variety of purposes, enhancing and accelerating research and healthcare decision-making for … Read more
On Monday September 30th and Tuesday October 1st, EHDEN invited a first group of five SMEs at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). During these 2 days, these SME were certified by EHDEN for their knowledge on standardising health data to the OMOP common data model (CDM) and the installation of the technical … Read more
Under the banner: “Unleashing the potential of data to improve cancer care”, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) held an Oncology Data Summit on 18 June in Brussels, Belgium. A broad spectrum of more than 170 stakeholders were present to hear and participate in a dynamic range of presentations and panel discussions. … Read more
Healthcare is rapidly increasing in complexity for everyone. As we generate new biological insights, mirrored with new approaches to treating disease, healthcare as an industry is greater challenged in meeting ever-growing need. For patients, trying to understand the reasons for being ill, how to treat their illness, and probably most importantly, the implications for risk … Read more