EHDS
Background
Section titled “Background”The EHDS aims to address the current lack of effective data collection at the EU level. It encompasses a legal framework of rules, common standards and practices, and infrastructures for healthcare data governance and includes real-world data (RWD). EHDS implementation is expected to generate €5.5 billion in savings for the EU over ten years through better access and exchange of health data in healthcare, to improve healthcare delivery, foster innovation, and support policymaking across Europe.
Enabling EHDS across the entire EU requires a significant investment of time, resources, and technology to enable fast and fair data access and sharing. By focusing on secondary use of health data, the TREzure project will contribute significantly to these goals.
TREzure
Section titled “TREzure”The TREzure project aligns with the objectives of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) by creating an architecture that not only facilitates the secure sharing of health data but also ensures compliance with the stringent requirements set forth by the regulation.
The architecture we propose will provide a secure and efficient platform for data sharing that prioritizes patient privacy and data integrity, which are core principles of the EHDS regulation. This alignment ensures that health data can be leveraged for research and innovation while maintaining high standards of security and compliance.
The TREzure Architecture serves to be foundational research in how secondary health data use can be orchestrated on the national or European level.
TREzure provides healthcare and research organizations a comprehensive platform for internal clinical/omics data management and analysis while eliminating barriers of entry to research collaboration by providing data security and regulatory compliance support. (https://www.bcplatforms.com/healthcare-research/secure-data-environments)
TREzure delivers a scalable real-world data platform, offering extended research analytics capabilities within secure research workspaces. It aims to harmonise healthcare data accessibility for hospitals. Importantly, as data from different EU countries is anticipated to be analysed simultaneously, an open communication channel is required between TREs for federated analysis.
TREzure is focused on providing key EU-based healthcare institutions, such as University Hospitals, with the significant digital capabilities required to meet the needs of EHDS in a fairly tight timeframe.