It is expected that during the six months of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU the processing will continue, presumably at first reading, of the proposal for the European Health Data Space Regulation. Among other aims, one of the effects of this project will be to promote personalised healthcare, through the provision of face-to-face and virtual services for patients, specifically adapted to their characteristics and health situation.
Personalised medicine will reinforce the efficiency and sustainability of the NHS, as the use of data and its exploitation (AI, big data) offers professionals new tools to help in prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
The application of these digital personalised medicine tools, including genomics, to Primary and Community Care, in an integrated manner with hospital care, is being promoted in Spain, through the regional health services, as in the rest of the EU, by the arrival of MRR funds, through the Plan for the Digital Transformation of Primary and Community Care, endowed with €230 million, and the Plan for Digital Personalised Care, endowed with €130 million.
Both plans will be developed in collaboration with the autonomous communities, offering the possibility of improving care for people through the primary and secondary use of the data that the Regulation will regulate.
A meeting with representatives of the health ministries of some member states, the health departments of the autonomous communities and European institutions, business associations and representatives of the bio-health sector to analyse:
- The experience of the primary use of data in healthcare in some European guest countries and the personalised digital care projects of the autonomous communities, as part of the NHS digital health strategy.
- The general framework of the European Regulation on the European Health Data Space.
- The experience of some European countries in managing the secondary use of health data and the prospects this opens up for the bio-health, pharmaceutical and research sectors.
- Challenges for the use of data in terms of ethics, technology and cybersecurity.
