Projects

State-of-the-art innovation

i~HD plays a strong role in national and international R&D projects and European-wide collaborative initiatives.

The organisation highly values participating in these projects and initiatives because it allows us to keep connected with the state of the art in innovative aspects of health care and clinical research.

The projects provide us with opportunities to put our services and expertise into practical scenarios, to learn, to improve and to expand our portfolio of health data solutions.

Health data challenges

Health data is centre stage in many of the call topics for research and development projects and initiatives sponsored by industry and national eHealth and research bodies. There is a burning need to collect, use and reuse health data for understanding disease trajectories, identifying trends, predicting evolutions, taking the right care planning decisions and accelerating research.

This growing reuse of health data goes hand in hand with the growing awareness of the importance of:

We are often invited to be a partner, providing expertise in many fields:

  • data protection and GDPR compliance
  • data sharing agreements
  • anonymisation and pseudonymisation
  • data quality benchmarking
  • research platform quality assessment
  • business modelling and sustainability
  • dissemination and multi-stakeholder engagement

Our experience in European projects

Via our founding members, i~HD can boast:

  • 30 years of experience in EU projects
  • more than 100 R&D projects i~HD has been a partner in
  • 150 experts contributing to our network
  • more than 30 recent events we have run or partnered

i~HD expertise in R&D is built on a long history of participating in (EU-funded) projects thanks to its founding members EuroRec and RAMIT (over 100 R&D projects), strengthened by our large international community of experts. We have a lot of successful proposal writing and project co-ordination expertise.

Besides performing and supporting research, i~HD is able to assist research consortia in building sustainable models and solutions. i~HD is itself a successful sustainable outcome of EU R&D projects in 2016. Being a neutral European wide non-for-profit association, i~HD can disseminate project progress and its final results to multiple stakeholders active in the domain of health data.