We are Data4Life
Everything we do is about making the world healthier by digitalizing health research.
Data4Life develops open science solutions for real-world health data, serving academia, pharmaceutical research, and global health authorities. Through our solutions D4L Collect and Data2Evidence, we support the full workflow from real-world data capture and standardization to evidence generation, built on standards including OMOP and FHIR.
Data4Life co-leads the OHDSI Germany national node and collaborates with research institutions worldwide to advance standards-based, reproducible real-world evidence generation. In collaboration with world-leading partners, we enable cross-border studies and turn distributed health data into analysis-ready insights, without compromising data privacy or institutional sovereignty.
Data4Life is a nonprofit digital health organization supported by the Hasso Plattner Foundation. Founded in 2017, our work is guided by a long-term commitment to impact, ethical data use, and open science collaboration. Data4Life is headquartered in Potsdam, with additional offices in Berlin and Singapore.
Read more about our projectsDiverse & international
Our motivated colleagues come from different countries and work together at our offices in Berlin, Potsdam, and Singapore.
Nonprofit. For purpose.
As a nonprofit organization, we treat health data ethically and responsibly.
Hasso Plattner Foundation
The Hasso Plattner Foundation is a charitable foundation based in Potsdam. Established in 2015, it supports projects in science and education, social matters and conservation, and art and culture. Its mission is to educate and inspire current and future generations through long-term initiatives such as the Hasso Plattner Institute, Sabine Plattner African Charities, Museum Barberini, and a range of other international education initiatives.
We are Co-Lead of OHDSI Germany
Together we strengthen Germany’s real-world evidence ecosystem.
OHDSI Germany is part of the worldwide OHDSI community. It is an open-science network that brings together experts from medicine, informatics, research, and industry. The community enables Germany to benefit from global best practices in standardized health data and real-world evidence generation.
At OHDSI Germany, we help clinicians and researchers across Germany adopt the OMOP Common Data Model and participate in collaborative international studies of the OHDSI network.
Read moreEnabling digital health research. Without technical or financial barriers.
The D4L Impact Program supports early-career researchers with access to modern infrastructure, cloud resources, and tools for harmonizing and analyzing real-world health data. As a nonprofit, we provide our technologies free of charge – to make sure ideas, not budgets, drive innovation.
Applications for "D4L Impact Track: Collect for Impact" accepted from January 12 - April 12, 2026.
Read more about the D4L Impact ProgramClinical research training at Data4Life
Data4Life is an official Site Center of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (PPCR) program. Hosted in Berlin, the program connects a global network of researchers and clinicians working to improve how clinical evidence is generated and interpreted.
