EU Council agrees position on health digitalisation

 EU lawmakers are a step closer to starting interinstitutional negotiations on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation, with the Council agreeing on their position on Wednesday (6 December) and the Parliament due to vote on theirs next week.

The EHDS, proposed by the European Commission in May 2022, aims to tap into the full potential of health data within and across the EU member states to support healthcare delivery – ‘primary use of data’ – and inform health research and policy-making – ‘secondary use of data’.

The proposal is the first of nine European sector- and domain-specific data spaces set out by the Commission in its 2020 communication, ‘A European strategy for data’. (...)