Establishment of parts of the health data access body in the Slovak Republic

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  • Title of the project: Establishing parts of Health Data Access Body in Slovak republic (HeDAB-SK) - Establishing parts of the Health Data Access Body in the Slovak Republic
  • Name and registered office of the beneficiary: National Health Information Centre, Lazaretská 26, 811 09 Bratislava
  • Place of implementation of the project: Dunajská 68, 811 09 Bratislava
  • Co-financing: European Health and Digital Executive Agency
  • Amount of grant awarded: 972 587,20 EUR
  • Amount of NCZI funding: 302 839,96 EUR
  • Duration of the project: 01/2024 - 11/2027
 
Brief description of the project: Establishment of parts of the Health Data Access Body to enable safe and trustworthy re-use of health data for research, innovation, policy-making and regulatory activities.

Benefits of secondary use of health data:
  • better healthcare outcomes – helps identify trends, best practices, improve patient care and develop new treatments
  • advances in medical research – promotes scientific discoveries and a deeper understanding of diseases
  • stronger public health policies – helping to track disease outbreaks, assess risk factors and inform decision-making
  • stronger public health policies – helping to track disease outbreaks, assess risk factors and inform decision-making.

In the long term, data will provide space for medical advances and transparency in their use - citizens will be able to see who accessed their health data and for what purpose they used it.

Reuse of health data - European Commission