Real world evidence for European health policy-making: making the case for interoperability

Background The foundations of evidence-based health policy-making are transitioning from the use of partial evidence yielded elsewhere and the application of heuristic rules, to the development of learning systems based on the reuse of routine data collected by the same institutions that have to implement those policies. Supporting that transition, the scientific production of real-world evidence (RWE) is becoming pivotal, particularly in...