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The sixth edition of the annual Health-RI conference was for the first time fully online. It turned out to be an exciting event with almost 650 participants: innovators, academic researchers, health care professionals, IT-specialists, patient representatives, industry and policy makers.
Good news for those that could not attend the conference on March 4th: we recorded it all. You can now also watch the parallel sessions you had to skip, or watch a presentation again, to refresh your memory.
In addition, all the posters with links to youtube presentations have also been made available to you on the Health-RI website. |
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 | HEALTH-RI MOVING FORWARD
The conference clearly showed that Health-RI has come a long way over the years. From visionaries making plans to an organization bringing it into practice. As an independent foundation, Health-RI is now converging existing initiatives and able to connect, team up and align stakeholders and communities also with initiatives from a more clinical field.
It resulted in recent achievements such as the National COVID-19 observational data portal a data stewardship program and the preparation of a Health-RI hub and regional nodes model to share health data.
The commitment of all participants in the community sessions and workshops and the pitches of Health-RI community managers demonstrated the bottom-up character of Health-RI and the enthusiasm within the field.
As Gerrit Meijer put it: “There is a shared sense of urgency. We would not have come so far without that. The field is ready to rumble.” |
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 | SHOWCASING HEALTH DATA INFRASTRUCTURES
A health data infrastructure is not the goal, but the way to make excellent science which translates into better health for citizens. That’s why Health-RI invited Aarno Palotie for a keynote lecture to show the possibilities that opened up in Finland with the Finngen infrastructure. This project combines the genome and national health record data from 500.000 Finnish participants.
Would such a thing be possible in the Netherlands? Jörg Hamann, chair of the Health-RI Biobankplatform: “Professor Palotie made a convincing case for combining nationwide health registers with centrally orchestrated biobanks. A central portal to all health care information, like Kanta under the authority of Findata, should come closer with Health-RI”
Of the many health data initiatives in the Netherlands, three fine examples were selected for a presentation: PLCRC, Population Health Data and national Radiological Image Repository for COVID-19 patients. |
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 | BUILDING ON THE FUTURE OF HEALTH RESEARCH
The conference paid tribute to the work done by many longer existing initiatives that Health-RI is building on: ESFRI programs, TRaiT project, Data4LifeSciences and many others. One such important research infrastructural program is BBMRI.nl which is now converging into Health-RI. Highlights from the BBMRI.nl program are documented in a celebratory BBMRI-magazine and which also offers a glimpse on the new biobank community under the umbrella of Health-RI. |
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