• January 8

    • EHDS

      The general objective of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) is to have easier and more secure rules, structures, and processes across the EU Member States to access and share electronic health data across borders.

      The EHDS regulation provides clear rules how health data can be accessed, how transparency should be created about the usage goals, and about citizens’ rights to clear information and opt out for certain usage goals. The EHDS also provides a clear legal framework essential for efficient health data exchange across borders, by ensuring that health data are standardised and interoperable at the EU level.

      By making health data more accessible at the EU level, the EHDS removes obstacles to data sharing across borders, allowing researchers to conduct transnational studies. These are important for rare diseases where data is limited, and shared data from across the EU would be greatly beneficial to support research in this area. It also secures secondary data use, ensuring that researchers, policymakers and patient organisations can tap into EU health data for scientific research with full respect for a person’s privacy.