DataTools4Heart celebrates its 2nd anniversary during its 5th Consortium Meeting

On 17 and 18 October 2024, the consortium of the DataTools4Heart project gathered at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC), in the Netherlands, for its mid-term consortium meeting. At this event, all project partners came together to assess progress, address challenges and plan the next steps and development of the project.

The first day began with an overview of DataTools4Heart’s progress and a discussion on the expectations and recommendations of the EU experts. The project team then engaged in in-depth sessions on clinical use cases and integration of DataTools4Heart components, in particular updates to data preparation and user flow for AI researchers. The second day included a keynote from HealthSage AI and sessions on multilingual clinical text datasets, the SMART cardiovascular risk score and the use of synthetic data.

Two sessions were held during the meeting, which were also open to external participants, on “New perspectives in the health and medical research sector: the European Health Data Space (EHDS)” and “Ethics and trustworthy AI”. The first session focussed on the future of health data sharing and its transformative potential across Europe, while the second session looked at the complex ethical framework for creating responsible and robust AI systems in healthcare.

As the project enters its third year, the consortium expects to present its first results soon. The next phase promises to bring exciting developments!