EHDEN Academy launches 15th course on an Introduction to Usagi & Code Mappings for an ETL

The EHDEN Academy, in collaboration with our guest lecturer, Maxim Moinat, Data Engineer/ OHDSI-OMOP expert, The Hyve, is pleased to announce the launch of our next course: Introduction to Usagi & Code Mappings for an ETL. The Academy is free, used in more than 60 countries, and only requires a participant to set up an … 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

European Patients’ Forum & EHDEN launch 2nd video course on real world health data management for non-experts on EHDEN Academy

Concepts like real world data, federated data networks, and common data models can be challenging for non-experts to understand. To this end, the European Patients’ Forum (EPF) and EHDEN collaborated to create three introductory modules that aim to provide non-experts, particularly patients and citizens, with the knowledge they need to understand these terms. They will … Read more

EHDEN Contributor to Health Data Round Tables: 2020 – 2022

EHDEN was pleased to be a contributor to the series of Health Data Round Tables convened by the Digital Health Society (DHS) and the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD), 2020 to date, and the following is their summary report with links to the round table reports: Health Data Round Tables Society needs … 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

Erasmus MC, EHDEN Coordinator, contracted to establish DARWIN EU® Coordination Centre for the European Medicines Agency

The Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) will work closely with the European Medicines Agency on the establishment of the Coordination Centre for the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU®). The contract was awarded to Erasmus MC under the leadership of Professor Peter Rijnbeek, Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics, following … Read more

BLOG – 2021: another remarkable year for EHDEN, but a tragic one for the world

The EHDEN project Consortium, like everyone, is looking forward to a recuperative and hopefully safe break over the festive season in Europe, and wishes the same for all our colleagues and partners, too. It has been a hard year, against a backdrop of a continuing COVID-19 pandemic and now the rise of the Omicron SARS-COV-2 … Read more

BLOG – Success with use of real world data in medicines research: Joining the dots of the European ecosystem

A recent survey in England indicated that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the public had learned more about how real world data (RWD) can be used both for monitoring public health and for research.  Words such as epidemiology and vaccine effectiveness now trip off the tongue and are no longer the preserve of scientists.   From society’s … Read more