Today, in Europe, we are challenged to generate insights and evidence from real world clinical data at scale, to support patients, clinicians, payers, regulators, governments, and the pharmaceutical industry in understanding wellbeing, disease, treatments, outcomes and new therapeutics and devices, let alone mandatory evidence requests. Unfortunately, such data is difficult to use at scale, in a myriad of languages, systems and structures, with challenging policy restrictions and technology considerations, especially in Europe, currently demonstrated unfortunately by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response to this, the
EHDEN public-private project was set up in 2018 for 66 months under the framework of IMI2, with twenty-two partners, including academia, SMEs, patient associations, regulatory authorities and pharmaceutical companies, led by Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands, and Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., Belgium. The ultimate aim is to be sustainable beyond the original 66 months, and the project will be launching an EHDEN Institute in 2021.
The mission of EHDEN is to provide a new paradigm for the discovery and analysis of health data throughout Europe, by building a large-scale, federated network of data sources harmonised to the OMOP common data model, with standardised analytical pipelines. The aim is to harmonise more than 100 million health records utilising the services of EHDEN-certified SMEs to conduct the mapping working with the data source locally. EHDEN has previously conducted two open calls to invite
SMEs to be certified by the project, and 3 open calls for
data sources to apply for a capped grant to support the mapping work with EHDEN certified SMEs. As of today, EHDEN is currently working with
61 Data Partners in 16 countries, and
26 SMEs in 14 countries across Europe.
To further extend our
network of certified SMEs, we are now launching the 3rd open call for SMEs to apply for training and certification to convert health data from various formats to the OMOP common data model. This 3rd open call will run from
Monday 15th of March until
Monday 12th of April (17h00 CET).
By becoming a certified SME in the EHDEN community you can:
