EHDS European Health Data Space
Unlocking the future of health data in Europe
What is EHDS regulation about?
The EHDS Regulation aims to establish a common framework for the use and exchange of electronic health data across the EU. The EHDS will enable the secure and trustworthy reuse health data for research, innovation, policy-making, and regulatory activities: Secondary use of health data.
Secondary Use of health data
When health data is reused for research, innovation, public health, policy-making and personalised medicine, in European law this is referred to as ‘secondary’ use.
Such data is analysed to identify trends, develop new treatments and improve healthcare services. It can be used again by researchers, companies, public health organisations or healthcare providers following the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation.
Benefits of secondary use of health data
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Better healthcare outcomes – Helps identify best practices, improve patient care, and develop new treatments. Advances in medical research – Supports scientific discoveries and a deeper understanding of diseases.
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Stronger public health policies – Helps track disease outbreaks, assess risk factors, and inform decision-making.
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Greater transparency and accountability – Improves healthcare service evaluation and promotes responsible data use.
Implementation: SPE, Secure Processing Enviroments for health reseach.
Secure Processing Environments (SPEs) are controlled computational infrastructures designed to process sensitive health data under strict access, audit, and privacy constraints. They allow authorized entities to perform analyses without accessing identifiable, patient-level data. A fundamental requirement is that only anonymized statistical outputs can leave the environment.
Differential Privacy is widely regarded as the most robust and transparent method for producing anonymized statistics. It offers formal mathematical guarantees of privacy while preserving the usefulness of the data. DPella applies this advanced technology through a patent-pending innovation capable of delivering formal protection while preserving analytical utility, enabling organizations to meet EHDS requirements