Finland – A treasure trove for real-world evidence (RWE) research and innovation
Finland has a long history of collecting and managing nationwide health and social data for the last century, which has resulted in exceptional data resources in terms of both quality and quantity. These data resources offer exceptional opportunities for academic and industry researchers in the field of medical discoveries and innovation. In addition, the Finnish real-world evidence (RWE) ecosystem provides value-adding partnership for global pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers.
Business Finland has prepared an all-inclusive document describing the exceptional Finnish real-world evidence (RWE) research ecosystem. The purpose of this document is to illustrate the wealth of opportunities Finland has to offer to companies who are looking for extraordinary health and social data sources, an efficient operating environment, and forerunning collaborators.
The document comprises:
- real-life use cases
- visualizations of the Finnish RWE research ecosystem
- information on national health registries and biobanks
- practical descriptions of the different phases and various applications of RWE projects
- Finnish world-class service providers
- Finland's strengths as a business environment
- data opportunities, application processes and RWE capabilities
Finland provides extraordinary opportunities for Real-World Evidence research in terms of data resources, operating environment and data science partners. For these reasons, we are seeing tremendous interest and many collaborations with global pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers in this area.
This document has been produced in close collaboration with the leading experts within the Finnish RWE field.
"Finland provides extraordinary opportunities for Real-World Evidence research in terms of data resources, operating environment and data science partners. For these reasons, we are seeing tremendous interest and many collaborations with global pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers in this area'', says Sampo Sammalisto, Head of Personalized Health Finland program.
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Further information
Sampo Sammalisto
Head of Personalized Health Finland
+358 50 584 1100
sampo.sammalisto (at) businessfinland.fi
Tarja Enala
Senior Advisor, Health and Wellbeing, Invest in Finland
+358 40 733 2708
tarja.enala (at) businessfinland.fi
Outi Tuovila
Ecosystem Lead, Personalized Health Finland
+358 50 339 2542
outi.tuovila (at) businessfinland.fi
Rauni Korolainen
Program Coordinator (Personalized Health Finland & Smart Life Finland)
+358 50 475 4746
rauni.korolainen (at) businessfinland.fi
