5th European OHDSI Symposium “Scaling up reliable evidence across Europe”

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PHEMS was proud to contribute to the 5^th European OHDSI Symposium, “Scaling up reliable evidence across Europe”, on June 3^rd, 2024, aboard the historic Steam Ship Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The event brought together researchers and stakeholders from across Europe to exchange knowledge and highlight progress on the use of the OMOP Common Data Model (OMOP-CDM).

The innovative work of PHEMS was on display with a plenary presentation by Sofia Bazakou from The Hyve plus two poster presentations highlighting the innovative work of PHEMS in pediatric health data sharing and privacy-enhancing technologies.

The Hyve presented “PHEMS: Validating Novel Federated Ecosystems for Analytics and Synthetic Data Generation Methods”.

This poster highlighted the development of a federated data ecosystem across European pediatric hospitals to support clinical research in cardiology benchmarking, pediatric sepsis, and hemophilia. It focused on using real-world data, OMOP-CDM standardization, and GDPR-compliant data sharing to foster secure cross-border research collaboration.

VEIL.AI presented “Enhancing Pediatric Care Data Collaboration through Privacy-Enhanced Federated Learning and Anonymization”

This poster highlighted advanced anonymization and federated learning techniques that protect data privacy without compromising research value. These innovations are especially vital for sensitive applications such as pediatric disease prediction, where traditional data sharing is limited.

These contributions reflect PHEMS’ commitment to ethical, secure, and impactful pediatric health research – leveraging technology to connect data, researchers, and care across Europe.

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Upcoming Sessions

January 27th, 15.00-15.50 CET

The PHEMS Federated Network: How We Are Enabling Clinical Benchmarking

The PHEMS Federated Network has reached an important milestone in its initial implementation phase. All four founding members are now fully connected to the network and are technically capable of running Use Case 1, laying the groundwork for effective clinical benchmarking.

Speaker:

Ross Stiven, Senior Product Manager at Aridhia

February 17th, 15.00-15.50 CET

Improving Benchmarking Capacity Via Federated Netoworks: Pediatric Cardiology

This meet-up explores how federated data approaches – where insights are shared without moving sensitive patient data – can strengthen benchmarking capacity, improve quality comparisons, and ultimately advance care for children with heart diseases.

Speaker:

Andrew Taylor, Director of Innovation at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

March 24th, 15.00-15.50 CET

Federated Learning in Rare Diseases: Generating Larger Data Sets to Overcome Limitations of Single-Centre Studies

Following our previous meet-up, “Improving Treatment for Pediatrich Patients with Hemophilia Through Machine Learning”, this session will provide an update on recent progress and key developments within the project.

This meet-up will present the latest advances in the application of machine learning to pediatric hemophilia care, including insights gained since the last discussion, ongoing work, and preliminary outcomes.

Speakers:

Alexander Janssen, Postdoctoral Researcher and University Lecturer in Artifical Intelligence, Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital
Prof. Dr. Marjon H. Cnossen, Pediatric Hematologist at Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital