2020 | Polypharmacy from a clinical perspective | UNICOM partner Prof. Dr. R. Vander Stichele, Clinical pharmacologist at Ghent University, Belgium/ Senior Research Coordinator at I~HD, explains Polypharmacy concepts from a clinical perspective in the Horizon 2020 project C3-Cloud Webinar on 28 August 2020 | PDF File |
2020 | White Paper written by nine SDOs, including CDISC, CEN, DICOM, GS1, HL7, IHE, ISO, LOINC and SNOMED International forming the Joint Initiative Council. | Highlights from the JIC white paper include four standards-based initiatives that offer practical solutions to real-world problems. These initiatives include the International Patient Summary (IPS), the Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP), COVID-19 and Genomics. The Joint Initiative Council’s SDOs work collaboratively to provide global, coordinated—not competitive—standards that address real-world healthcare issues.
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2020 | Presentation of UNICOM at SNOMED virtual expo-October 2020 - by Robert Stegmee and Jane Millar | The presentation describes the global problems tackled by UNICOM focusing more specifically on the relationship between IDMP and related terminologies. It explores also the role of SNOMED CT in this and informs about the ressources available to engage with the project. | PDF File |
2020 | Initial Gap Analysis on Standards Development -Presentation at HL7 International Work Group Biomedical Research & Regulation (BR&R) September 2020 | Those 4 slides briefly summarize the identified gaps in WP1 for the HL7 WG audience | PDF File |
2020 | Keynote lecture by Prof. K. A. Stroetmann "Global patient safety through semantic interoperability - the univocal identification of medicinal products | Presentation made at a virtual evnet organized by the Tallinn Health Care College (THCC), Estonia in October 2020 on the theme: "Public Health & Healthcare in the Move — Opportunities and Challenges in Research, Practice and Policy | PDF File |
2020 | Commentary written by some UNICOM participants published in the review Vaccine | Commentary published in the open source journal Vaccine on December 5 2020. The authors detail the actions needed to ensure we can track and trace the global use of COVID-19 vaccines.
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2021 | EHTEL factsheet: Towards a European Data Space for Medicines | This factsheet explains why the concept of European Health Data Spaces is particularly relevant for medicinal products with a focus on pharmacovigilance. It also analyses what has already been done by Member States in this field, with Belgium as an example, and considers the necessary next steps.
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2021 | Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccine Traceability - Article published in the volume 21 of the review healthmanagement.org by several UNICOM WP leaders. | After the article published in Vaccine highlighted the need for global monitoring of vaccine use, HealthManagement.org has asked the authors about the challenges of implementing such system in practice and possible measures to minimise the accompanying risks. | PDF File |
2021 | UNICOM curent status - Presentation for the International Pharmaceutical Regulators Programme (IPRP) on the 24th of February | This slides set presnet to a wide community of regulators on all continents the objectives, opportunities of exchange and expected results o UNICOM. It inists in particular on the standards gap analysis, the logical model and the Products Pilot List. | PDF File |