Orphanet Activity Report
Orphanet, the reference portal for rare diseases and orphan drugs with partnerships in 40 countries, has published its annual activity report for the year 2015.
It details the activities of Orphanet, while stressing the highlights of the past year. These include:
• Coordination of joint action of the Member States of the European Union 2015-2018 on rare diseases with Orphanet RD-ACTION;
• The evolution of the Orphanet database to a viable European model which is also one of the RD-ACTION objectives;
• Orphanet and the Orphanet ontolology ORDO received the 'IRDiRC Recommended' label;
• Orphanet was integrated as the 30th platform of the French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB);
• Improving the transparency and traceability;
• Orphanet has updated scientific databases and expert resources;
• The update of Orphanet Reports;
• Improved search tools in the Orphanet website;
• Collaboration between IHTSDO (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation) and Orphanet to improve the visibility of rare diseases in SNOMED CT;
• The progress of the addition of ORPHA codes to European national health systems.
• The launch of the application ORPHA GUIDES.
Read the 2015 Activity Report Orphanet.