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Opening the Vault: Germany’s Health Data Soon Accessible for Research
Starting Summer 2025, researchers and innovators across Europe will be able to apply for access to one of the largest pseudonymized health datasets in the EU—via Germany's Health Data Lab at BfArM. In this discussion, Head of Health Data Lab (BfArM) Dr. Steffen Heß, scientist with has extensive experience in combining scientific expertise with data analysis in the healthcare sector, talks about conditions to access and analyse data from the Health Data Hub, differences between digital twins, synthetic data and real world data and more.
📊 Covering 95% of the population, the dataset includes:
Claims data from 95 statutory health insurers
Linked electronic health records (from 2025)
💡 Who can apply?
Anyone under GDPR jurisdiction with a research project aligned with public interest (medical research, health system improvement, epidemiology). Industry is welcome too—as long as the purpose complies.
https://fodh.substack.com/
www.facesofdigitalhealth.com
Youtube: https://youtu.be/CltdPRvz_9w
#healthdata #digitalhealth #EHDS #AI #research #Germany #syntheticdata #healthinnovation #datasharing #privacy
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Starting Summer 2025, researchers and innovators across Europe will be able to apply for access to one of the largest pseudonymized health datasets in the EU—via Germany's Health Data Lab at BfArM. In this discussion, Head of Health Data Lab (BfArM) Dr. Steffen Heß, scientist with has extensive experience in combining scientific expertise with data analysis in the healthcare sector, talks about conditions to access and analyse data from the Health Data Hub, differences between digital twins, synthetic data and real world data and more.
📊 Covering 95% of the population, the dataset includes:
Claims data from 95 statutory health insurers
Linked electronic health records (from 2025)
💡 Who can apply?
Anyone under GDPR jurisdiction with a research project aligned with public interest (medical research, health system improvement, epidemiology). Industry is welcome too—as long as the purpose complies.
https://fodh.substack.com/
www.facesofdigitalhealth.com
Youtube: https://youtu.be/CltdPRvz_9w
#healthdata #digitalhealth #EHDS #AI #research #Germany #syntheticdata #healthinnovation #datasharing #privacy
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