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The European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) convened from 11 to 14 June 2024 at the National Library of Latvia in Riga. The conference focused on libraries' adaptability to ongoing changes and effective research data management in healthcare.

The Research Data Day took place on 18 June 2024 in Bremen and was organised by the U Bremen Research Alliance. The event served as a platform for intensive exchange on handling research data. NFDI4Health attended the event and presented its concepts for a FAIR landscape for health data.

The consortium NFDI4Health has just published a new call for project funding for the year 2024. Under the title "Transparency of Research Studies: Establishment of Local Data Hubs as Part of Research Data Management in NFDI4Health," projects are supported that establish decentralized data registries at study sites.

Members of various NFDI consortia met in Bremen from 27 to 28 May 2024, to exchange their expertise in the area of helpdesks. Birte Lindstädt presented the planned support structures for the NFDI4Health community. The outcome of the meeting was the creation of a competence matrix and a workflow for handling inquiries.

WisPerMed met under the theme "Future-Proofing Healthcare - Navigating Digital Transformation to the Point of Care on 16 May 2024 in Essen. Ulrich Sax from NFDI4Health delivered an engaging presentation addressing the question: How can data sharing be supported by design?

This year’s symposium of the Association for Documentation and Information Management in Medicine (DVMD) took place on 7 and 8 May 2024, the 2024 in Hannover. The conference theme this time was “Garbage in, garbage out? - not with us”. In a two-part workshop, NFDI4Health speakers from Leipzig, Greifswald and Hanover, together with Medizininformatikinitiative (MII) and the company DMI, presented concepts that can enable the subsequent use of data quality indicators.