TEHDAS D7.2 – Options for the services and services architecture and infrastructure for secondary use of data in the EHDS
Creators: name: González-García, Juan
name: Bernal-Delgado, Enrique
name: Tellería-Orriols, Carlos
name: Estupiñan-Romero, Francisco
name: Lähteenmäki, Jaakko
name: Lodenius, Helena
name: Pajula, Juha
name: Pinto, Cátia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Executive Summary

The Joint Action (JA) Towards the European Health Data Space (TEHDAS), helped EU Member States, and the European Commission (EC) to develop a common framework for the cross-border secondary use of health data to benefit public health and health research and innovation in Europe. The goal of the JA is that, in the future, European citizens, communities and companies will benefit from secure and seamless access to health data regardless of where it is stored. The TEHDAS JA started in February 2021 and ran until 1 August 2023.

Within the TEHDAS JA, the work package 7 (WP7) “Connecting the dots” detailed the technical options to provide an effective secondary use of health data through the European Health Data Space for secondary use of health data (HealthData@EU, informally “EHDS2”). As defined in the TEHDAS glossary, the secondary use of data occurs “when data is used for a purpose different from the purpose for which the data was initially collected.”

This document presents a synthesis and refinement of the Deliverable D7.1 “Options for the minimum set of services for secondary use of health data in the EHDS”2, delivered in March of 2022, and its continuation released as Milestone 7.6. where the catalogue of the possible services as well as the deployment options was presented. The synthesis and refinement presented here is based on the analysis of the evolution of the HealthData@EU architectural descriptions, starting from the EHDS legislative proposal, presented in May 2022, as well as the rest of advancement around the HealthData@EU infrastructure, for example, the prospection work being done in the HealthData@EU pilot project3. This milestone will serve as the basis of the final Deliverable of WP7 D7.2 “Options for architecture and service infrastructure and services for secondary data use in the EHDS”, to be delivered in May 2023.

In addition, in this document it is also presented a dissertation in the implementation options of in three key technical components of the HealthData@EU infrastructure: the information systems to manage the national metadata catalogues, the information systems to manage the cross-border data access applications and data requests, and the secure processing environments. The dissertation about these three elements is presented in the guidelines included in Annexes A to C and synthesize a considerable amount of discussion that took place as part of the WP7 activities, in the form of work package internal meetings, workshops with the Work Package Advisory Group, meetings with external stakeholders and surveys to external services providers.

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