European Health Data Space (EHDS)

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What is EHDS?

The European Health Data Space Regulation (EHDS) establishes a common framework for the use and exchange of electronic health data across the EU. It enhances individuals’ access to and control over their personal electronic health data. At the same time, it enables certain data to be reused for public interest, policy support, and scientific research purposes. 

Transition towards the EHDS began in March 2025 but the rules on secondary use of data will come into effect in March 2029.
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How EHDS Affects You

Across the EU, health data is locked in national silos, trapped behind a patchwork of legal, technical, and governance barriers. Each Member State has its own rules for accessing and using electronic health records (EHRs), and the systems that store this data often can’t talk to each other.
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Why it matters

This fragmentation makes it difficult to share data securely across borders, slows down research and innovation, and limits the potential of digital health. EHDS is designed to change that, but it also introduces new responsibilities.

Organisations must now prepare to:

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Align with the unified EU-wide framework.

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Implement secure, privacy-first data sharing practices.

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Navigate new roles and responsibilities under EHDS.

With the rules on the secondary use of data coming into force in March 2029, and a one-to-two-year lead time needed to prepare, the time to act is now.

What’s the solution? A privacy-first approach to secondary data use.

EHDS builds on GDPR and other EU data frameworks.
It requires that health data be transformed safely and processed in secure environments for uses beyond its original intended purpose such as research, innovation, and policy making.  To succeed under EHDS, organisations must:
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Understand their role as data holders, users, or access bodies.

Role Definitions
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Establish secure processing environments (SPEs).

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Implement robust anonymization and governance frameworks.

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Manage opt-outs and ensure transparency for patients.

How Privacy Analytics Helps You Prepare for EHDS

Get the expertise, technology, and strategic guidance to help you meet these requirements, while safely unlocking the full value of your data. Choose from our proven range of options to meet your data anonymization needs.
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Our experts help you assess your current data governance, identify gaps, and design a roadmap for EHDS compliance and innovation.
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How Privacy Analytics Helps You Prepare for EHDS

The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) is a real-world example of the infrastructure and governance EHDS envisions. Core components of the Privacy Analytics Platform power the NHS’s Privacy-Enhancing Technology (NHS-PET), enabling secure, scalable data use across 55M+ patient records.
Solution

NHS-PET provides automated data transformation de-identification, audit trails, and privacy controls, ensuring data is used responsibly for service planning, research, and innovation.

Results

Reduced waiting times for patients. 

Supporting new virtual services, meaning patients can receive safe treatment in their homes.

On average, 114 more inpatients treated in hospital operating theatres, per hospital, per month, as a result of using FDP with PET

Customer Success Stories

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“Better use of data is essential for the NHS… this new tool provides a safe and secure environment to bring together data, which enables us to develop and deliver more responsive services for patients.” 

— Dr Vin Diwakar, NHS National Director for Transformation

Why it matters for EHDS?

The NHS FDP demonstrates how federated architecture, privacy-by-design, and secure data environments can work in practice to deliver better patient care, to ensure research and innovation opportunities are optimised and to offer a blueprint for EHDS implementation across EU Member States.

How Privacy Analytics Helps You Prepare for EHDS

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