Academia and research centers

Help to establish success conditions for scaling up health data research

Academia and research centers interact and collaborate with the wide range of health data stakeholders.

Whether the aim is to participate in clinical research, to build and share knowledge, to respond to local and nation-wide health challenges or to prevent sickness and disease, access to and use of high-quality and trustworthy health data is usually key to the successful implementation of their projects.

Improve your access to reliable real-world data

  • You want to raise awareness of the importance of re-using health data.
  • You want to connect with hospitals, GPs and other data sources to find research collaboration opportunities.
  • You want to rely on real-world health data that meets the criteria you have defined and that is fit for your research purposes.

Create societal trust

  • You want to help establish success conditions and societal trust to scale up investments in big data research.
  • You want to produce evidence that you are handling high-quality health data in a privacy-compliant way.
  • You want to show accountability for the outcomes of your research.

Facilitate health data re-use and value evidence gathering for more and better research

Academia and research centers:
How robust is your health data approach?

Are you sure all measures are in place in order to …

trust the quality of your research data trust the quality of real-world data safeguard the privacy-compliant use of health data promote standards adoption demonstrate your trustworthy health data handling interact within the health data ecosystem

Be confident of the quality of your research data

A continuous cycle of data improvement

Health data is the very core of your business. It is essential that data quality checks and improvement cycles be integrated in your company’s daily routines.

We provide you with instruments, insights and strategies to know and enhance your data quality
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Improve your access to real-world data

Increased research eligibility for health data providers

You want to select the appropriate real-world data fast and easy. However, real-world health data is often not fit for the intended re-use purposes.

Health data providers can therefore have their specific data sets benchmarked against your quality criteria so as to check whether they are fit for your research objective.

We verify that health data is fit for purpose

Benchmark for clinical research
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Comply with all data protection regulations

Create clarity and alignment

Health data is the most personal and sensitive information. Its use is tightly governed.

GDPR compliance is a challenge that has to interplay with other aspects of information governance such as ethics, security and contractual obligations. 

In addition, the assurance of the processes, tools and practices that are in force when using a health ICT system is essential.

And finally, you want to educate your staff to ensure they understand and adhere to your practices and policies.

We conduct conformity assessments against a unique set of European criteria

Discover our IDHIS – Information Governance Certification Programme
Check trustworthy health data

We organise GDPR tutorials

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Make sure data from different sources can be connected

educate stakeholders about the importance of standards

The transfer of health data from one ICT health system to another similar system is necessary to allow for better individual care provision and for big data analysis.

i~HD is active in promoting the development and use of interoperability standards through EC Support Actions and innovation projects, awareness campaigns, guides and educational materials for professionals and decision makers.


i~HD can help you be part of a connected health data ecosystem

Discover our views on interoperability standards

Produce the necessary quality labels

Create certified trust

There is a growing demand from individuals and businesses alike to see evidence of the quality and trustworthiness of health data and health data handling.

As a neutral body, i~HD can help produce the necessary evidence by conducting assessments and issuing different types of quality labels that showcase an organisation’s accountability.

We award seals and certificates

Data Quality Champion Seal
Data Quality Benchmarking Seal
IDHIS – Information Governance Conformity Certificate

Be part of an innovative health data community

Connect and collaborate

Get in touch with other health data stakeholders, showcase the research value of data, boost collaboration, help shape governance of societally trusted reuse of health data in research.

Participating in our events and joining our independent European multi-stakeholder institute means being part of a health data community where you can showcase your expertise, propose initiatives and work out solutions.  

i~HD unites all health data stakeholders to catalyse and enable the reuse of health data
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