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The European Health Data Space (EHDS) aims to make the primary use of health data for healthcare provision more continuous, effective, and (cost) efficient. Moreover, it pursues to facilitate the secondary use of health data for purposes such as research, innovation, and policy making. In the context of secondary use, the EHDS legislative proposal (published on 3 May 2022) argues that Member States should develop Health Data Access Bodies ...

The healthcare sector has been undergoing fundamental change for more than a decade. The digitalization of healthcare and health systems, medical research and the healthcare economy is leading to this transformative and increasingly accelerating change, which has enormous impact on almost all aspects of human health in modern societies. The amount of data in the healthcare sector cannot be compared with any other sector that is undergoing change ...

Background: Health care has not reached the full potential of the secondary use of health data because of-among other issues-concerns about the quality of the data being used. The shift toward digital health has led to an increase in the volume of health data. However, this increase in quantity has not been matched by a proportional improvement in the quality of health data. Objective: This review aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the ...

With the introduction of the European Health Data Space (EHDS), the secondary use of health data for research purposes is attracting more attention. Secondary health data processing promises to address novel research questions, inform the design of future research and improve healthcare delivery generally. To comply with the existing data protection regulations, the secondary data use must be fair, among other things. However, there is no clear ...

Health data collected during healthcare provision is essential for advancing medical research and public health. However, patient data contains sensitive information about an individual’s health, collected in a medical setting subject to the special protection of medical confidentiality. Due to the unique nature of the patient–physician relationship, healthcare professionals are legally and ethically bound to safeguard patient identity and ...

Objective
To assess the level of knowledge and use of the lactational amenorrhoea method (LAM) among adolescents in Uganda between 2006 and 2016 using nationally representative data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).

Design
Cross-sectional design involving analysis of three DHS (2006, 2011, and 2016) in Uganda.

Setting
The data collection took place in Uganda. The DHS are nationally representative ...

There is a prevailing 'collect once, use many times' view of clinical data and its secondary use. This study challenges this view through an assessment of the degree to which the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) might be used to provide raw data for the Belgian Nursing Minimum Data Set (B-NMDS). A mapping exercise identified exact matches between ICNP and B-NMDS for just 8% of B-NMDS care descriptions; no matches at all ...

Background: Research regarding socio-economic differences in alcohol and drug use in adolescence yields mixed results. This study hypothesizes that (1) when using education type as a proxy of one’s social status, clear differences will exist between students from different types of education, regardless of students’ family socio-economic background; (2) and that the effects of education type differ according to their cultural background. ...