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Avicenna continues to grow by welcoming Alexion among its members
The Avicenna Alliance is proud to announce the newest addition to its list of members: Alexion!
What should the new European Health Authority look like? Avicenna shared its feedback with the European Commission
On 24 February, the Avicenna Alliance has submitted its feedback on the creation of a European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) aiming to ensure a solid framework for EU preparedness and response to serious cross-border health threats.
The European Commission published its Beating Cancer Plan
On 3 February the European Commission published its much-awaited Beating Cancer Plan. The Plan develops proposals and key initiatives for each stage of the disease, remarking the role that research, innovation and new technologies play in the fight against cancer.
Alliance provides feedback on the creation of a European Health Data Space
On 3 February, the Avicenna Alliance has submitted its feedback to the inception impact assessment on the European Health Data Space. With this feedback, Avicenna Members provided the Commission with guidance on how to ensure access to data, the interoperability of data and more importantly on which technical developments can enable us to turn the health data into actionable information, including in silico and AI techniques.
European Commission publishes evaluation on Directive on patients' rights in cross-border healthcare
On 15 January, the European Commission published an evaluation and fitness check roadmap on the Directive on patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare, which is open for feedback until 11 February.
The European Commission takes first step on the creation of the European Health Data Space
On 23 December, the European Commission published its inception impact assessment on the European Health Data Space open for feedback until 3 February. The creation of the EHDS announced in early 2020 has been accelerated and has become a priority for the European Commission with the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of having timely access timely to health data.
