Enriching the Opportunities for Clinical Research in European Hospitals: the EHR4CR Platform - Brussels, Belgium - 9 April 2014
Ruxandra Draghia-Akli
Director of the Health Directorate at the Research DG of the European Commission
EHR4CR Connectivity to Hospitals
EHR4CR's First European Hospital Conference
Welcome to the webpage of the invitation-only launch of a Europe-wide Hospital Engagement Programme on the enhanced use of Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research. This conference was attended by decision-powered delegates from 100 hospitals that are Centres of Excellence across Europe, and by over 20 senior representatives from Pharma.
The event presented and demonstrated the results of the IMI project Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research (EHR4CR), which has developed a platform to accelerate and optimise services (e.g. recruitment) for clinical trials by connecting to the EHR system at each participating hospital securely and with full privacy protection.
Hospitals were offered higher efficiency in participating in clinical trials, a potential increase of their research income, as well as an enhancement of their reputation as centres of research. The EHR4CR services have already been piloted at eleven European hospitals, and have aimed to scale up to a commercially supported service.
For pharma, this implies reducing the time taken to conduct a clinical trial by many months and speeding up the delivery of innovative medicines to healthcare.
Speakers from EC and IMI
Paul Timmers
Director of the Sustainable & Secure Society Directorate in the European Commission Communications Networks, Content and Technologies Directorate General (DG CONNECT)
Michel Goldman
Executive Director of IMI
Ann Martin
Knowledge Management of IMI
Richard Perkins
President of the eClinical Forum and founder and managing director of ConSept Consulting in France
Mats Sundgren
Principal Scientist, Global Clinical Development, AstraZeneca R&D
Bart Vannieuwenhuyse
Senior Director Health Information Sciences at Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, coordinator of the EMIF (European Medical Information Framework) project
Dipak Kalra
President of the EuroRec Institute and a Director of the openEHR Foundation
Christian Ohmann
Head of the Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials (KKS) at the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University (HHU) Düsseldorf (Germany)
Petra Wilson
Chief Executive Officer of the International Diabetes Federation
Brecht Claerhout
CEO of Custodix
David Voets
Software Development Lead at Custodix
Andreas Schmidt
Acting Manager European External Collaborations in Product Development Innovation Management at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Peter Singleton
Organiser and Chair, ‘Workshop on Future of Privacy and Ministry of Justice consultation’ UCL, London, Sept. 2010
Nikolaus Forgó
Director of the Institute for Legal Informatics at the Leibniz Univerity of Hannover
Martin Dugas
Director of the Institute of Medical Informatics at the University Hospital in Münster, Germany
Marc Cuggia
Assistant Professor at Rennes1 University and a hospital practitioner at the University Hospital of Rennes
Neelam Patel
Business Consultant at NeelamConsulting
Maria A Englund
Director of Karolinska Trial Alliance, KTA
Georges De Moor
Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics Head at the State University of Ghent, Belgium