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In our interview series about the people that drive IDERHA, we spotlight Early Career Community member Leonie von Berlin. Read about her interest in stress-related disorders, why she would like to have dinner with Simone de Beauvoir and her ideal way to spend the day off. 

The ‘IDERHA and EU-DataSpaces Stakeholder Meeting’ convened on 28 November in Vienna, bringing together a diverse array of technical staff from Austrian healthcare system stakeholders. 

Today, February 4th, marks World Cancer Day with this year’s theme “United by Unique”. This day is a reminder why we are doing what we do in IDERHA: to improve the life of cancer patients. 

We recently identified ten key thematic areas where policy recommendations could significantly improve health data utilization. We developed a survey to seek your opinion on where our future work should focus.

In our interview series about the people that drive IDERHA, we spotlight Early Career Community member Lukas Rohatsch. Read about his interest in music and why he likes watching the Big Bang Theory. 

IDERHA aims to develop a platform that will integrate diverse health data, resulting in better patient care and more efficient research. Projects leads Phil Gribbon and Christian Muehlendyck reflect on the challenges, expectations, and their personal motivation to make a difference for patients. “We’re very optimistic about the positive impact IDERHA will have.”

Lung Cancer Europe (LuCE) is the voice of people living with lung cancer and their families at a European level. LuCE is a partner in IDERHA and for Lung Cancer Awareness Month we spoke to Anniina Hentinen. She works as a EU Project Manager at LuCE and she explains why Lung Cancer Awareness Month is so important. 

Recently, we published IDERHA's Transparency Statement, giving an overview of how we define the procedures concerning the flow, communication, and dissemination of information, data, and findings.

In our interview series about the people that drive IDERHA, we spotlight Early Career Community member Yojana Gadiya. Read about her fascination about becoming a scientist and what she would like to learn from Agatha Christie over dinner. 

IDERHA had a strong participation this year in the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) annual conference, the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE2024) in Athens. 

Hans Verstraete from Johnson & Johnson presented the IDERHA projects during the Leiden Drug Development Conference on the 19th of September. 

Beginning of September, several IDERHA researchers came together to assess the development status of our federated infrastructure.

Today, we publish the second video interview of a series with the PAB members of IDERHA. Cristian Andriciuc is one of these PAB members and was interviewed about the role of the PAB in IDERHA, and his ambitions for the project. 

Soon after IDERHA’s first publication, we are happy to announce that work package two published their work in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. The publication dives into the world of transformer models in biomedicine. 

In our new interview series about the people that drive IDERHA, Early Career Community member Simon Scheider is the first to step in the spotlight. Find out why he would like to have dinner with Charles Babbage, and how he ended up in data science after a career in corporate finance.