Hospital data lakes are a central source of information in Medaffcon's studies, and often, data retrieval can be automated. However, what happens when more complex matters need to be extracted from the databases? In such cases, manual extraction is used, says Medaffcon's Scientific Advisor, Riikka Mattila
Swedish real-world health data, a recent addition to the in-house capabilities of Medaffcon, offer unique possibilities for measuring disease burdens and determinants, the effects of different exposures, and the outcomes of various health conditions in a population of almost 10.5 million people.
This Christmas, Medaffcon is participating in Mieli Ry's charity initiative aimed at improving the well-being of children and young people
The ISPOR Europe conference in 2023, held in Copenhagen, gathered a record number of participants. The Bella Center hosted HEOR professionals eager to learn about the latest trends in their field. The use of real world evidence (RWE) in health technology assessment (HTA) and regulatory evidence generation played a crucial role in the conference program, alongside valuable interpersonal interactions which were also in an important part of the event.
Real-world data (RWD) can, however, be utilised also in a variety of non-clinical medical and pharmaceutical studies to compare aspects such as treatment outcomes and resource utilisation between different geographies and treatment options, reminds Samuli Tuominen, senior data scientist at Medaffcon.
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.
AstraZeneca Finland, Medaffcon and clinical experts have investigated what is the rarer endotype of severe asthma using biomarker data obtained from the data lake of Turku University Hospital (TYKS), Auria.
Samuli Tuominen, senior data scientist at Medaffcon, has co-authored a study that utilised propensity-score matching to compare the performance of two immunosuppressive drugs in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis after liver transplantation. Medaffcon has helped to validate the superiority of tacrolimus over cyclosporine as a post-liver transplantation immunosuppressive regimen for patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis, a rare immune-mediated cholestatic liver disease.
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.
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.
Experts at Medaffcon have perused volumes of real-world data on patients with atopic dermatitis to provide new insights into co-morbidities and treatment patterns associated with the chronic skin condition.
Experts from Medaffcon, Takeda and the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) have concluded an extensive study into paediatric short-bowel syndrome based on information from patient records.
Our first national multiregister study on sexually transmitted diseases provides important information on the burden of genital warts (GWs) in Finland.
Sweden’s abundance of high-quality digital healthcare data has enabled what is surely one of the most exhaustive study of mortality associated with Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI) in the world.
Studies mapping short-term absences provide new information on the burden caused by diseases for healthcare services and the society.
Research based on Finnish and Swedish real-world health data can be generalised also to other settings and populations, says Dr. Johanna Simin, real-world epidemiologist at Medaffcon.
Joining Medaffcon enables Dr. Johanna Simin to leverage her expertise to advance real-world data use and evidence-driven health. Medaffcon, in turn, can augment its in-house capabilities with the high-quality digital healthcare data found in Sweden.
Medaffcon has added Swedish healthcare registries to its capabilities as it continues to pursue growth and facilitate data utilisation by providing pharmaceutical companies access to rich and relevant healthcare data.
Timo Karvinen joined Medaffcon’s Market Access team as an expert in the beginning of May. In addition to his extensive expertise, he also brings a whole new service concept to Medaffcon.
Register study undisputedly confirms that a smoker’s risk for any postoperative complications is significantly higher than non-smokers’.
Finnish hospitals’ data lakes offer an opportunity to access tremendously rich real-world data on treatments and outcomes that enable research on topics ranging from medical questions to health economics.
The result of a recent original study surprised the researchers: the costs of treating heart failure tenfold in exacerbation. The results were published in Duodecim on 23 March 2023.
The Market Access team works actively with different actors, while helping customers in processes related to market access and market presence and in strategic planning.
In this nationwide register study, we described the incidence, prevalence, and treatment burden of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), and its disease association with asthma from 2012 to 2018 in Finland.
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Medaffconin Tanja Nieminen ja Heini Honkanen osallistuivat terveystaloustieteen tutkimukseen ja terveydenhuollon menetelmien arviointiin keskittyvään ISPOR-kongressiin marraskuussa.
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