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The European Health Data Space (EHDS) offers significant benefits for citizens, healthcare providers, and society as a whole. Citizens have easily access to their health data, gain greater control and better digital insight into their own health data and can share it more easily with healthcare providers, even across borders. This improves the continuity and quality of care.
For the healthcare sector, the EHDS ensures better data exchange and interoperability, leading to more efficient processes, fewer duplicated tests, and more personalized care. In addition, the controlled reuse of health data enables high-quality research, innovation, and data-driven health policy, with strong safeguards for privacy and security. In this way, the EHDS contributes to a more modern, accessible, and sustainable healthcare system in Europe.
3. Change 3
National metadata catalog
The European Health Data Space (EHDS) sets a clear goal: make health data findable, interoperable and safely reusable across Europe. That starts with high quality, standardized metadata. The HDA’s metadata catalogue provides a national inventory of health and healthcare datasets with machine readable metadata to streamline data discovery and access. It consists of a common data model, business glossary, data dictionary, data modeling and domain views. By adopting the Health DCAT-AP model, the HDA’s metadata catalogue does not only centralize Belgian's available health data, but it ensures every dataset is described consistently and that it can be discovered and understood across national and European systems.
