Real-world evidence (RWE) studies are usually started with a specific use for results in mind. However, the amount and significance of the evidence generated in the RWE studies become clearer during t...
Health From Data
Liisa Ukkola-Vuoti
Liisa Ukkola-Vuoti,
PhDScientific Advisor
Welcome!
Welcome to the Health from Data -blog! I write about current topics related to real-world data / real-world evidence and the many possibilities of utilizing this research data, from a practical point-of-view. Furthermore, I explore the Finnish RWE research landscape which has undergone changes in the past years due to new legislative developments. I have over ten years of experience of working as a scientific advisor and research scientist. I hold a PhD in medical genetics, and I find the therapeutic areas related to neurology and psychiatry particularly interesting.
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on virtual control arms. In this blog post Data Scientist and virtual control arm specialist Johanna Vikkula explains how virtual control arm can be formed...
The safety and efficacy of pharmacotherapy can be measured in multiple ways during the different stages of a drug’s life cycle. Adverse drug reactions and medication errors are described in the data s...
Randomized clinical trials (RCT) have traditionally been held up as the gold standard for studying the efficacy of a treatment. Recently, real-world evidence (RWE) has been pushed alongside the RCT. B...
We start this year in the world of methodologies with a hot topic of utilizing unstructured data in the generation of real-world evidence (RWE). This blogging is authored by Medaffcon‘s Junior Data Sc...
The real-world evidence (RWE) study makes visible what happens to a group of patients in real life, as the leap it takes away from the patient's bed gives a broader perspective on what's happening. Wi...
We took the first glimpse into the world of methodologies earlier this year when Medaffcon’s Data Analysis Lead Iiro Toppila opened the featured blog posts. During the autumn, Iiro returned to write a...
The Finnish health and social care registries are unique from an international perspective. Thus, real-world data (RWD) recorded in the Finnish registries is a strong option when weighing in which cou...
Real-world evidence (RWE) is relatively young. However, RWE-research has its roots in the traditional registry-based study, which is old. How did the registry study become RWE? Let's move back to the ...
