Publications

Avicenna Alliance provided feedback on the creation of a European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)

On 24 February, the Avicenna Alliance 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.

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Avicenna Alliance provided feedback on the inception impact assessment on the 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.

Avicenna Alliance provided feedback to the public consultation on European Medicines Agencies Network Strategy to 2025

On 4 September the Avicenna Alliance provided feedback to the public consultation on European Medicines Agencies Network Strategy to 2025!

The purpose of this public consultation was to seek views from EMA’s and HMA's stakeholders, partners and the general public on the proposed joint European Medicines Agencies Network Strategy to 2025 and whether it meets stakeholders’ needs.

Avicenna Alliance Position Paper on the Pharmaceutical Strategy – Timely patient access to affordable medicines

On 15 September the Avicenna Alliance submitted Member's feedback to the survey on the pharmaceutical strategy! While providing Members' feedback to the Commission's survey on the pharmaceutical strategy, the Alliance has also joined to its response a tailored position paper which has been developed by members of the Avicenna Alliance from medtech, pharmaceutical, software and life science industries and scientific community from academia.

Avicenna Alliance Executive Summary - The role of Artificial Intelligence within in silico medicine

Members of the Avicenna Alliance were eager to provide feedback the European Commission’s White Paper on artificial intelligence and therefore started working on an Avicenna Alliance white paper on ‘’the role of artificial intelligence within in silico medicine”. Given the great interest shown by the members of the Alliance and the time necessary to respond to the European Commission's public consultation on AI, it was decided to produce a provisional executive summary on “The role of Artificial Intelligence within in silico medicine “ as an introduction to the white paper to be published later in 2020 to provide feedback to the European Commission.

Avicenna Alliance Position Paper - AI and Big Data effective readiness: A privacy-enhancing pathway to data access

The Avicenna Alliance warmly welcomes the European Commission’s ambitious policy package, including the European strategy for data and the White Paper on artificial intelligence aimed at making the EU fit for the digital age. In particular, the Avicenna Alliance Members welcome the European Commission’s Data Strategy and its various references to the promising opportunities brought by health data for personalised medicine and the benefits and advances that computer modelling and simulation technologies can bring in healthcare.

To make the best of the new EU strategy, the Members of the Avicenna Alliance have drafted this position paper which applies both to the Public Consultations on a European Strategy for Data and the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence. This document has been developed by members of the Avicenna Alliance from medtech, pharmaceutical, software and...