EMIF

To help improve access to these patient-level data, the European Medical Information Framework (EMIF) was launched in January 2013. The EMIF project is a five-year project and during this time it will develop common technical and governance solutions and improve access and use of health data. To this aim, a common Information Framework (EMIF-Platform) will link up and facilitate access to diverse medical and research data sources... The combination of rapidly increasing medical knowledge and advances in information technology is allowing researchers to use human health data in ways that were previously unimaginable. Increasingly, the challenge is to find sufficient data to fuel this research. At the same time, huge volumes of suitable data are already being collected and stored electronically, in routine Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) databases, research-driven cohort studies associated with biobanks and other sources... This animation provides a brief introduction to the EMIF..