Shaping The Future: The European Health Data Space

The European Commission published a proposal on 03 May 2022 for a regulation to create a European Health Data Space ("EHDS"). This proposed EU regulation establishes a health-specific ecosystem of rules, common standards and practices, infrastructures, and a governance framework, which processes a wide range of electronic health data and allows access to it. The EHDS aims are:

• Easier access to health data: individuals will have faster and easier access to electronic health data (whether they're in their home country or another member state). This will enhance digital access to personal electronic health data, to support its free movement, and to facilitate a single market for electronic health record systems;