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Data Strategy Briefing — March 15, 2024

EU institutions reached a provisional agreement on the European Health Data Space, setting governance for primary and secondary health-data use across Member States.

Executive briefing: The Council presidency and European Parliament negotiators struck a provisional agreement on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) on 15 March 2024, aligning rules for cross-border patient access, data altruism, and secondary use permits.

Key data governance checkpoints

  • Data holder obligations. Identify electronic health record systems and registries that must support common technical specifications and access through national EHDS contact points.
  • Secondary-use compliance. Map datasets eligible for health data access bodies, including quality metrics, pseudonymisation requirements, and data permit workflows.
  • Cross-border services. Assess readiness to provide patient access to electronic health data in a standardised format across the EU.

Operational priorities

  • Governance design. Prepare to engage with health data access bodies, ensuring governance charters, ethics reviews, and application pipelines meet EHDS standards.
  • Technical alignment. Track forthcoming implementing acts on EHR interoperability, semantic standards, and data quality indicators.
  • Stakeholder outreach. Coordinate with hospitals, insurers, and digital health vendors to align on consent, logging, and breach notification obligations.

Enablement moves

  • Run maturity assessments covering EHR interoperability, consent capture, and audit trails against EHDS requirements.
  • Update regulatory roadmaps to incorporate EHDS adoption alongside HTI-1 and TEFCA investments.

Sources

Zeph Tech guides health and life-science organisations through EHDS planning, covering interoperability, governance, and cross-border compliance.

  • EU regulation
  • Healthcare interoperability
  • Data governance
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