In this episode, we hear from Václav Papež, Research Associate at University College London (UCL), about the onboarding experience of UCL and UK Biobank as an EHDEN Data Partner. We discuss some of his latest research on defining phenotypes in data from electronic health records, his experiences with mapping data to the OMOP CDM with The Hyve in the IMI BigData@Heart project, as well as the recent EHDEN E-THON (Evidence-a-thon) and his experiences in participating in medical evidence generation in the EHDEN Network.

In this episode, Gözde Susuzlu, Project Coordinator, and Estefania Cordero, Project Communications Officer, at the European Patients Forum discuss the rise of patient involvement in healthcare research, the need for support and digital literacy, and the role of such programmes as EHDEN. They explore the DataSavesLives initiative and the wider European Health Data Space (EHDS) development, finishing with the insights derived from the recent EPF survey conducted on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients and patient organisation.

The EPF 2021 Congress will be held virtually 26-29 October, more information here.

In this episode, Dani Prieto-Alhambra, Professor of Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology University of Oxford and academic lead for the work package in EHDEN focusing on the generation of real world evidence, talks about COVID-19, and how new, open science ways of working such as study-a-thons are influencing medical research.

In our first episode of season one, Patrick Ryan, PhD, VP Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen R&D, Assistant Professor, Adjunct; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center, and founding member of Observational Health Data Sciences & Informatics (OHDSI) joins us to discuss the last decade of OHDSI's and now EHDEN's methodological and tool development. We expand into COVID-19 and the pandemic's impact on observational research, and conclude by discussing OHDSI's educational remit and the need for upskilling in the research community.

The Global OHDSI Symposium is 12-15th September, 2021 - more information via OHDSI.org.

Welcome to season 1 of the Voice of EHDEN (VoE) podcast series. VoE will bring together a broad range of experts, all of whom are working at the edge of new developments with real-world healthcare data and large-scale research at all levels. They will share their first-hand experiences and help us gain a better understanding of the challenges and progress being made on this front. For more information about EHDEN, upcoming and past episodes, or to suggest future topics, please visit our website: www.ehden.eu