Workshop on collaboration on data discovery and multi-country applications under EHDS
A recent workshop brought together 150 participants both online and onsite in Paris to address the challenges and opportunities in improving collaboration between Health Data Access Bodies (HDABs), data users, and data holders.
The discussions focused on strengthening cooperation during the data discovery phase and in the context of multi-country applications, a topic that is gaining urgency with the upcoming European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation.
Expert presentations grounded in practical experiences and use cases laid out the groundwork for the workshop discussions. The participants examined current practices and challenges, identifying gaps, solutions, and potential pathways for alignment.
It was emphasized that these discussions mark an important step in preparing stakeholders for the transition to EHDS, ensuring harmonised processes and more efficient health data access in Europe. Many stakeholders and participants highlighted the need for more use cases to understand the implications stemming from the multi-country applications and streamlining the processes in the future.
To ask the right questions and to be truly prepared, we need to practise through pilots and more use cases and, importantly, we must continue working together so we all move in the same direction.
Elina Drakvik, Senior Lead, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
The workshop discussions will provide input to the further work of the project, feeding into a TEHDAS2 guideline on collaboration – a draft document to be published in the third wave of public consultation.
Access the full workshop report here.
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