The Hotchkiss Real-World Evidence (RWE) platform is a new virtual data platform established to assist HBI scientists with accessing, integrating, and analysing routinely collected health data, data from clinical registries, and external sources of data including surveys and population-based datasets. The key functions of the RWE initiative are to facilitate collaborations between investigators and stakeholders at HBI, UofC, Alberta and nationally, access to routinely collected healthcare data, linkage of investigator-collected data, or external data sources, and dataset creation and analysis.