08 December 2020, Brussels, Belgium. A critical aspect of the EHDEN project is for it to collaborate with Data Partners, such as hospitals, primary care providers, networks of both, regional datasets, claims databases and cohorts, with a view to harmonising their clinical data locally to a common data model. Key to the success of the … Read more
Designed jointly by EHDEN and OHDSI, the Data Quality Dashboard (DQD) debuted last August with the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, which is an initiative funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH is the largest biomedical research agency in the world and is part of the United States Department of Health … Read more
On the 4th and 5th of August, EHDEN organised a virtual certification meeting, inviting a first group of 10 European SMEs out of the 15 that were selected during our open call for SMEs in February. During these 2 days, these SMEs were certified by EHDEN for their knowledge on standardising health data to the … Read more
Between January 13 and 17, approximately 40 people of all disciplines, from clinical to academic to Data Partners (all with data mapped to the OMOP common data model) gathered in Barcelona for the second EHDEN study-a-thon. This time, research questions were situated in the domain of Rheumatoid Arthritis as we set out to evaluate the … Read more
Reducing cancer deaths and complications by leveraging OMOP and OHDSI. Surgery is the major treatment option for colorectal cancer, which today is the third most common form of cancer worldwide. However, understanding when and how to apply surgery, in combination with drugs, radiotherapy and other medical treatment options, is an ongoing field of research. In … Read more
The future of primary care research in Catalonia – SIDIAP’s journey of adopting the OMOP common data model. In this 3rd instalment of the EHDEN webinar series, Kees van Bochove (https://thehyve.nl/) invites Talita Duarte Salles and Leonardo Mendez Boo from SIDIAP (https://www.sidiap.org/) to discuss their journey of adopting the OMOP CDM. Tune in to learn … Read more