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The Royal College Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) showcased the BigMedilytics project and the gestational diabetes pilot to patients and medical staff during an event at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin to celebrate World Diabetes Day on the 14th of November. Around 60 million people suffer from...

Breast cancer is the leading malignancy in women in Europe with over 562,500 cases in 2018, of which 20% are in women under 50 years old. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for women, and one in eight women in Europe will...

The BigMedilytics project was one of the sponsors of the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2019 that took place in Helsinki (Finland) from the 14th to the 16th of October. The project had a booth at the venue of the event, the Scandic Marina...

The BigMedilytics project organised its first workshop in Valencia (Spain) under the title “Big Data: Fueling the transformation of Europe’s Healthcare sector” on the 4th and 5th of September 2019 in the Ciudad Politécnica de Valencia. Organized by INCLIVA, Philips, and ITI, the event gathered...

The BigMedilytics project will organize the event “Big Data: Fueling the transformation of Europe’s Healthcare Sector”, taking place on the 4th and 5th of September in the Polytechnic City of Innovation in Valencia (Spain). The event will involve organizations covering the key players in the healthcare...

Two success stories about the BigMedilytics project were nominated for the first edition of the BDVe "Success story award" contest on the score of the BDV PPP Summit from the 26th to the 28th of June in Riga. "Mapping the societal dimensions of Big Data to...

Last November the BigMedilytics project published a report under the title Initial prototypes of specific components for all BigMedilytics pilots, to present a first comparison between the different pilot developments within the project. A new document addresses an update of the specific components to create...

The BigMedilytics project was presented at the '2nd Big Data for Precision Medicine Symposium (BDPM 2019)' at Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC) on Tuesday 4th of June 2019 in Cordoba, Spain. Alexandra Muñoz, science communicator at INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute in Spain,...

Professor Dr. med. Klemens Budde, from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, was invited by the European Commission to speak as an expert in a workshop on Data Donation for Health Purposes on the 24th of May in Luxembourg. During his statement, Prof. Dr. med. Klemens Budde...

The increase of frequency of events such as hospitalization and mortality is influenced by the presence of two or more Chronic Diseases and Conditions (CDCs). In fact, CDCs are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in Europe representing the 86 % of all deaths,...