Health data: Finland as a blueprint?

By 2025, the European Health Data Space (EHDS) is to promote new digital health services and enable GDPR-compliant access to health data. The EU Commission intends to present a regulation proposal in April. Given the very different starting points and degrees of digitization among individual member states, the magnitude of the task quickly becomes clear.

In February 2020, the EU Commission adopted the European Data Strategy. The Health Data Space envisaged in this framework is intended, for example, to enable the exchange of electronic patient records, genomics data, or data from patient registers safely across the borders of EU countries in accordance with uniform standards. The aim is not only to provide better healthcare (primary use), but also to achieve improvements in healthcare research and healthcare policy (secondary use). The European Commission is currently working on a legislative proposal to be presented in April 2022.

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