Yet readiness is far from guaranteed.
Many healthcare providers still collect data solely for clinical purposes, without any infrastructure for sharing or reuse. Most face a combination of limited in-house expertise, unclear guidance, and uncertainty about how to translate legal obligations into day-to-day practice.
GET REHDY is here to change that.
GET REHDY is a VLAIO COOCK+ project that started on March 1st, 2026, led by a multidisciplinary team of five Flemish knowledge institutions. Our mission is to support healthcare actors across Flanders — from hospitals and healthtech firms to legal experts and patient groups — in becoming EHDS-ready for the secondary use of health data.
GET REHDY works from three complementary angles:
- Technical:
We introduce the data product approach: treating health data not as a by-product of care delivery, but as a high-quality, trustworthy and reusable asset managed throughout its full lifecycle. We develop modular components covering data quality, interoperability, privacy-by-design and metadata management.
- Legal:
We translate the complex requirements of the EHDS, GDPR and Data Governance Act into practical, usable tools and guidance. We help organisations understand which obligations apply to them and how to integrate compliance-by-design into their processes from the ground up.
- Organisational:
EHDS readiness also requires a cultural shift. Through co-creation, role-specific training and engagement tools, we strengthen the knowledge, skills and digital literacy of all stakeholders involved — from data stewards to patient organisations.
We work bottom-up, with real hospitals, companies and citizens. We deliver usable tools and demonstrators — not reports that sit on a shelf. And we clarify what can already be done, even before all regulatory structures are fully in place.
