During the first week of June 2017, the European Medical Information Framework (EMIF) took the next step in fulfilling its mission of improving the identification, access and assessment, and the (re)use of health data. Following the launch of the EMIF Alzheimer’s disease (AD) Catalogue (https://emif-catalogue.eu/) back in January 2017, the next phase was initiated as the ‘Alzheimer’s disease cohort explorer’...

'Digital Citizens, Digital Patients' - 3rd EMIF Colloquium EMIF was delighted to host this meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, 28/29th June 2017. The conference inspired EU healthcare thought leaders to present research findings and share best practices on the use of data at all points of the healthcare value chain as Estonia took over the EU Presidency.  More information here....

As an update as of Thursday 16th March 2017, EMIF now has 300 researchers and/or institutions registered to use the Data Catalogue. The European Medical Information Framework (EMIF) is delighted to announce that we are extending access to the EMIF Data Catalogue to researchers beyond EMIF within the research community, linked to its mission of improving identification, access and assessment,...

EMIF is delighted that some of our partners presented at the OHDSI Symposium, 2016 in Washington DC, USA on Friday 23rd September 2016. Peter Rijnbeek, Associate Professor, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and colleagues across Europe presented a poster, entitled, "Implementation of the OMOP CDM and OHDSI tools in the European Medical Information Framework (EMIF)". The abstract of the poster...

Alzheimer Europe is delighted to welcome you to the 26th Annual Conference which takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 31 October–2 November 2016. The theme for this year is “Excellence in Dementia Research and Care” The conference will address numerous aspects of developing a dementia-friendly society, exploring the challenges concerning excellence in diagnosis, medical treatment and research as well as innovative person-centered...

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new website for the IMI-EMIF project! This new and fully revamped website now offers links to our digital library including many videos on the work done in EMIF and to the publications resulting from the project. In the next months, more content and materials will be made available, so keep an...

We are pleased to announce new EMIF young investigator video series now released via our digital library! Check out the videos to learn how a public-private partnership project such as EMIF is shaping these researchers of the future!...

Approximately 100 participants attended the 2nd EMIF Colloquium, a single day meeting, supported by EMIF, IMI, EFPIA and Janssen, in the historic Gerbeaud Café in central Budapest to listen to, and discuss with an internationally renowned speaker line up on the application of real world data for the development and market access of new therapeutic agents. Speakers from around Europe,...

More than 75 EMIF team members gathered in Budapest March 14-16, 2016 to not only share status updates on the ongoing work, but also discuss new joint AD/Metabolic scientific questions to be addressed using the EMIF framework. Overall, tremendous progress was shown for both research projects, with many more exciting results being underway and opportunities for further collaboration identified. In...