Patrick Weber

FAIR4Health is a research project funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 Research Programme under the topic “Science with and for Society SwafS-04-2018: Encouraging the re-use of research data generated by publically funded research projects”. This project is coordinated by Virgen del Rocío University Hospital of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) accounting with seventeen partners from eleven EU and non-EU countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Serbia, and Turkey). The consortium is composed by 6 health research organizations, 2 universities internationally recognized as experts in data management, 2 universities and 2 institutes with a strong background on medical informatics, and 5 business actors. The project officially started on the 1st of December 2018 and will be running for 3 years. FAIR4Health consortium joins forces to facilitate and encourage the EU Health Research community to share and reuse their datasets derived from publically funded research initiatives by applying the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable); through the demonstration of the potential impact that such strategy will have on health outcomes and health research. In this sense, FAIR4Health will apply privacy-preserving distributed data mining techniques over the shared datasets to develop 2 pathfinder case studies: (i) supporting the discovery of disease onset triggers and disease association patterns in comorbid patients, and (ii) a prediction service for 30-days readmission risk in complex chronic patients. FAIR4Health outcomes will inform the European Commission’s transversal strategy on the management of datasets generated with publically funded research initiatives.

The European Federation for Medical Informatics Association (EFMI) is the leading organisation in medical informatics in Europe and represents 32 countries. EFMI is organized as a nonprofit organisation concerned with the theory and practice of Information Science and Technology within Health and Health Science in a European context. The objectives when founded in 1976 were: - To advance international co-operation and dissemination of information in Medical Informatics on a European basis; - To promote high standards in the application of medical informatics; - To promote research and development in medical informatics; - To encourage high standards in education in medical informatics; - To function as the autonomous European Regional Council of IMIA