Projects

The Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 (IMI2) Big Data for Better Outcomes (BD4BO) was launched in 2016 as an umbrella programme with the overall objective of realising the potential of Big Data in the context of European healthcare; for promoting innovative methods through harmonising, accessing and analysing data.

The BD4BO programme comprises several disease-specific projects focusing on Alzheimer’s disease- Real World Outcomes Across the Spectrum for Better Care (ROADMAP), hematologic malignancies- Healthcare Alliance for Resourceful Medicines Offensive against Neoplasm in Hematology (HARMONY), cardiovascular diseases- Big Data for Better Hearts BigData@Heart (BigData@Heart), and prostate cancer (PIONEER), with potential others at a later date. These disease-specific projects are supported by the Coordination and Support Action (DO-IT) as an overarching coordination structure (completed in 2019), and the European Health Data Networkand Evidence Network (EHDEN) project which will be a federated network of relevant data sources.

The Programme includes the following projects:

BD4BO
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Definitions
Big Data	BD4BO
“Big data in health refers to largely routinely or automatically collected datasets, which are electronically captured and stored. It is reusable in the sense of multipurpose data and comprises the fusion and connection of existing databases for the purpose of improving health and health system performance.” (European Commission, Study on Big Data in Public Health, Telemedicine and Healthcare. 2016.)	Big Data for Better Outcomes is a comprehensive European research programme funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (IMI2) aiming to develop key enablers to support healthcare system transformation through the use of big data.
DO->IT	Core outcome sets
“Big Data for Better Outcomes, Policy Innovation and Healthcare System Transformation” is the Coordination and Support Action project of the BD4BO programme.	the agreed minimum standardised set of outcomes that should be measured and reported in trials or other research on a specific condition.