The EHDEN project, which launched in November 2018, wrapped-up its initial phase at a two-day event on 9/10 October in Barcelona. The overarching theme of Day 1 was “celebration” in which a large group of the EHDEN Community consisting of Consortium Members, SMEs, and Data Partners came together to look back at EHDEN’s many … Read more
We are excited to announce that EHDEN will be hosting a Symposium in Barcelona, Spain on 10 October 2024. As the EHDEN IHI 2 project formally ends and transitions to the EHDEN Foundation, the Symposium will celebrate our collective accomplishments, their impact on European healthcare – and look forward to how we will sustain them … Read more
In January, the National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE), University of Oxford and Fundació Institut Universitari per a la Recerca a l’Atenció Primària de Salut Jordi Gol i Gurina (IDIAPJGol) collaboratively held a study-a-thon in Barcelona. This event brought together Data Partners and oncology experts to utilise real-world data (RWD) for advancements in … Read more
Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a silent public health issue, impacting health and quality of life of millions of women across the globe. Diagnosis and treatment are often delayed, with up to 54% of women with HMB never receiving either. To address this, a two-day study-a-thon was held with eleven EHDEN Data Partners (DPs) in … Read more
Access to essential medicines is on the decline in Europe and this is having a harmful impact on patient health by increasing mortality, adverse events and therapy errors. A number of national and international initiatives have been undertaken to address these shortages, and since 2016, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published a public catalogue … Read more
Mapping Finnish medical terms into the OMOP Common Data Model started as research collaboration in 2020. The exciting possibility to use numerous OHDSI-developed tools in cohort-building, case-control comparisons, visualisations, and analytics expanded quickly across all Finnish University Hospitals, University of Helsinki, and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Due to the common need … Read more
Renske Los is assistant professor at the department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and co-lead of OHDSI NL. Together with Prof. Peter Rijnbeek she helps onboard new national nodes to the OHDSI Europe chapter. How do national nodes evolve and why are they important? Since 2021, national nodes have … Read more
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
With module 3 now posted, EHDEN (European Health Data & Evidence Network), together with the European Patients’ Forum, has completed its initial series of easy-to-understand, animated courses for non-experts as part of the EHDEN Academy course offering. These three introductory courses are designed to familiarise non-experts with the basics of health data in terms … Read more
The EHDEN Academy, in collaboration with our guest lecturers, Pilar Pinilla-Dominguez and Alan Lamb, are pleased to announce the launch of our next course: Introduction to health technology assessment. The Academy is free, used in more than 60 countries, and only requires a participant to set up an account and log in. This six-chapter course, … Read more