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
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
EHDEN colleagues were delighted to participate and present at this year’s OHDSI Symposium, the first in person following the COVID-19 lockdowns. With more than 400 colleagues from around the world, the three days were split into a whole day conference, an all-day tutorial and then work group meetings and exposure of these to OHDSI colleagues. … Read more
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO in March of 2020 and EHDEN was formally launched in November 2018. With a solid foundation of Data Partners in place by early 2020, and since then, EHDEN has been collaborating with OHDSI (Observational Health Data Science and Informatics), our growing base of Data Partners, and other … Read more
Brussels, Belgium, 5th September 2022: We are delighted to announce and celebrate the special award from the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) for recognisable and impactful contributions to public health during the COVID-19 pandemic awarded to Prof Dani Prieto-Alhambra, EHDEN’s Research Coordinator, Professor of Pharmaco and Device Epidemiology, NDORMS, University of Oxford, and Professor, Real … Read more
No one is big enough alone to master the complex future. Curious minds could help here in learning from others and building on accomplished work. It seems that even politicians and decision makers are sharing the same mindset: bringing in more cohesion and bridging different aspirations together is the efficient way forward. Ecosystems and collaboration are the keys for sustainable future despite of the differences.
Each year at their annual Symposium, OHDSI recognises collaborators or collaborating institutions that contribute to their mission. Once again, colleagues from across the EHDEN community won Titan Awards at this year’s Symposium, which speaks to the high level of expertise found within the EHDEN network as recognised by the OHDSI Community itself. EHDEN congratulates them … Read more
While there was extensive use of drug repurposing throughout the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was substantial heterogeneity over the types of drugs used for treatment purposes globally. Some drugs, including hydroxychloroquine, saw sharp declines in use, while adjunctive therapies grew into a more relied upon method for patient management. In a … Read more
Recent study-a-thon investigates the natural history and outcomes of prostate cancer patients managed with watchful waiting. A conservative management option for prostate cancer patients with a life expectancy of less than 10 years at time of diagnosis. The patient’s disease is ‘watched’ for development of local or systemic progression until they require palliative treatment (care … Read more
On February 16th, EHDEN was featured in the OHDSI community call as Peter Rijnbeek (EMC) and Nigel Hughes (JnJ) gave a presentation on “Enabling Large-Scale Analysis of Electronic Health Records in Europe: The EHDEN Project” The slides can be found here while the recording of the presentation is available on YouTube.