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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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