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Secondary Use

EHDS Is Not a Data Lake: Understanding the Real Architecture of the European Health Data Space

EHDS Is Not a Data Lake: Understanding the Real Architecture of the European Health Data Space

The European Health Data Space (EHDS), established under Regulation (EU) 2025/327, is frequently misunderstood as a large-scale European health data sharing platform. In reality, the regulation introduces something fundamentally different: a regulated governance and infrastructure framework for controlled access, interoperability, and secure processing of health data across Europe.

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Secondary Use Under EHDS: Why Access to Health Data Will Never Be Open

Secondary Use Under EHDS: Why Access to Health Data Will Never Be Open

Secondary use is one of the most ambitious and strategically important parts of EHDS. It enables the use of health data for scientific research, innovation, public health, statistics, healthcare planning, AI development, and policy making.

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