Proposing a common basis for health data access across Europe

1st October 2021

Proposing a common basis for health data access across Europe. Working groups based on Calls to Action on Health Data Ecosystems

This report presents the findings of a multistakeholder round table consultation, in the form of consensus papers from three Working Groups to examine the acceptance criteria for societal trust in the use of health data and a recipe for trustworthy digital health: standards, architecture and value. The three Working Groups were developed and convened by DHS and i~HD neutrally and independently from the event sponsors, Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft. A total of 50 participants, distributed evenly amongst the Working Groups from EU and international institutions, national governments, industry, academia, hospital management, healthcare professionals, regulators, and patient representatives.

These topics take a deeper dive on three of our 7 2020 Calls to Actions on Health Data Ecosystems, specifically Action 4 (Demonstrate benefits to society from data access, use and reuse), Action 5 (Adopt a risk stratification approach), and Action 6 (Build trustworthy framework for data access and use). Consensus papers were developed and agreed through a combination of online meetings, email discussion and shared document editing.

• Link to the full report here

Proposing a common basis for health data access across Europe (2021) Digital Health Society and The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data