Data Science - Medaffcon

21.3.2024

Finland: An Ideal Environment for the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Real-World Evidence (RWE) Studies

Pharmaceutical companies should consider Finland when evaluating locations for Real-World Evidence (RWE) studies. The country boasts numerous strengths that make it an outstanding choice for real-world data-based (RWD) research. “Finland’s strong tradition and extensive experience in utilizing healthcare registries for research make it unique,” says Dr. Riikka Mattila, Scientific Advisor at Medaffcon.

29.2.2024

The OMOP (Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership) Common Data Model (CDM) facilitates the utilization of healthcare data – Medaffcon was involved in a Finnish OMOP pilot study

In healthcare, there is a vast amount of data being generated and processed. Sometimes, its utilization is cumbersome because the data is scattered, and its analysis requires a lot of preprocessing.

9.11.2023

The leading European HEOR meeting ISPOR Europe 2023 of the year is approaching

Coming up soon, Copenhagen will be the center of health economics as more than five thousand pharmaceutical and healthcare professionals gather for the ISPOR conference. ISPOR has been well known, especially among health economists. However, this years’ top trends real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) attract even wider audience.

26.10.2023

Dr. Essi Havula joins Medaffcon – Bridging science with healthcare

Dr. Essi Havula has done an impressive international career as a researcher and top scientist. She joins Medaffcon team to strengthen the scientific possibilities of utilizing real-world-data and evidence.

13.10.2023

Medaffcon strengthens data science team as customer demand grows

Medaffcon in September added two new members to its team of data scientists, preparing itself for an era where pharmaceutical development and innovation are driven increasingly by real-world data. “Real-world evidence is getting bigger and bigger and we’re getting more and more research assignments, so we need smart minds and quick fingers to do all the data science,” sums up Iiro Toppila, data analysis lead at Medaffcon.

3.5.2023

Smoking clearly increases the risk of postoperative complications

Register study undisputedly confirms that a smoker’s risk for any postoperative complications is significantly higher than non-smokers’.

18.1.2023

Text mining helped analyse a million entries on smoking

How to review and analyse a million sentences? Text mining decreased the work of clinical experts and accelerated the research process.

9.1.2023

Unstructured healthcare data contributes to solving new issues

Finland has unique data for pharmaceutical purposes and unstructured healthcare data can also be already effectively utilised.

7.11.2022

Virtual control groups in pharmaceutical development – What are they and can they be trusted?

Single-arm research designs are challenging for a pharmaceutical reimbursement and marketing authorisation process.

31.10.2022

Findata reformed the processing of data permit applications – customers benefit in a diversity of manners

Finnish Social and Health Data Permit Authority Findata has significantly reformed and accelerated the processing...

14.9.2022

Synthetic data and a common data register – the future of real-world evidence is fast approaching

Utilisation of real-world evidence (RWE) progresses at speed and development steps are fast. Utilising real-world...

23.2.2021

New RWE themed blog to start in March!

Interested in RWE research? Health from data is the first real-world evidence themed blog written...

22.10.2019

Machine learning based tools in the analysis of RWD; focus on image recognition

Healthcare provides various types of Real World Data (RWD) that can be used to generate...

24.9.2018

AI-based tools for mining electronic health record data

Analyzing electronic health record (EHR) data has already provided us with new insights in medical...

8.4.2018

Possibilities of machine learning and artificial intelligence in RWE studies

Currently huge piles of health care data have been collected in Finland through national, regional...