Strengthening the services of the Health Data Hub, France’s health data access body and its integration within the European Health Data Space.

2026-07-22

The Health Data Hub (HDH), an already existing French Health Data Access Body, has a mission to be a unique gateway for easy, unified, transparent and secure access to health data for public interest projects in order to improve the quality of care for patients. The organization needs to enlarge its capabilities at national level (objective 1), fully embed it within the European ecosystem (objective 2) and to enable work on data quality (objective 3). To reach these objectives, the Health Data Hub proposes to create a network of strategic data holders to jointly work on these objectives and include them in the EHDS. The first objective is to further develop the digital business capabilities at national level: This includes the implementation of a metadata catalogue based on the work of the HealthData@EU pilot project but bringing it to the next level of maturity including the variables included in each dataset. The data holders in the consortium will fill in the metadata catalogue so that the output will be a fully operational metadata catalogue. As far as the secure processing environment (SPE) is concerned, the HDH will set up data ingestion channels between the HDH’s already existing SPE and national data holders in the consortium.. For the second objective, the French application intends to contribute to the scale-up and deployment of the HealthData@EU infrastructure based on the outcomes of the pilot project. The HDH proposes to pursue the work on the infrastructure and services that have not been (fully) implemented during the pilot project in close coordination with the EC central services, as well as other European partners willing to contribute to this effort. For the third objective (data quality and interoperability) to facilitate data sharing at European level, a joint approach with data holders is proposed. Quality enhancement and standardisation efforts will be undertaken for the databases involved, based on European recommendations on the subject

France

2025-10-01