From 3–4 December 2025, the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data celebrated its 10th anniversary by convening European thought leaders to explore how to create greater value from health data. The message was clear: Europe needs to build a Trust-based Health Data Economy to boost the competitiveness of its Life Sciences sector and drive the efficiency and effectiveness of its Healthcare Systems
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Health data has the potential to catalyse smarter healthcare and efficient research. We need to urgently ramp up our learning by creating and combining high-quality health data and advocating its trustworthy uses.
As a neutral, multi-stakeholder institute The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data strives to maximise community value from health data.
That is why we promote, develop and share good practices and tools and perform quality assessments.
We must learn from health data now to enhance tomorrow’s world.
Health data is often not fit for crucial reuse purposes such as clinical research, decision making, value-based health care. We therefore catalyse stakeholders to scale up their data quality, by coaching, educating and equipping them with instruments, organising assessments, providing insights and strategies to benchmark and enhance their health data quality, and providing expert support in all phases of the research lifecycle.
All organisations, and the public, need to trust the ways in which health data is used, and by whom. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has heightened our awareness of this. We have translated our expertise in data protection for reuse purposes into codes of practices, educational and certification programmes, which we provide to organisations and European projects.
With more and more health ICT systems collecting and exchanging health data, we see a growing demand to demonstrate the trustworthiness of those systems. Using 1700 criteria and a standardised conformity assessment framework, we assess and certify the quality and governance of health ICT platforms.
Interoperability standards are vital to scaling up health data use, even more so given the rise of patient and citizen generated data. i~HD staff and experts have a long history of developing international standards for health data interoperability. They have worked to ensure these standards are adopted into products and health ecosystems, helping connect clinical information across different silos. This enables safer and more effective patient care and supports big data research.
Organisations that handle health data aim to demonstrate that they manage it in secure and trustworthy ways. i~HD programmes offer audits for data, ICT systems, information governance and skills. As an independent institute, i~HD is best positioned to award quality labels to stakeholders that showcase their engagement, quality and accountability.
We know that everybody needs to do more, and invest more, in health data through improved models of healthcare delivery, patient empowerment, and the development of innovative diagnostics and treatments. We help to stimulate this multi-stakeholder momentum to collect, curate, share and analyse data across care and research, for the benefit of all.