The GET REHDY team, led by imec-SMIT and represented by Melissa Wittens, participated in the Health, Ethics, Law, and Technology Symposium (HELT 2026) in Brussels. Their goal was to give a workshop to let the attendees experience what challenges need to be faced when you want to access health data for secondary use (i.e. reuse).
Ilse Vermeulen (UHasselt), Daniela Spajic (KU Leuven CiTiP), and Erik Bollen (VITO) guided the participants through a use case focused on collecting data from different sources and different countries. They role played through the challenges and opportunities data holders and data users face when accessing data in an EHDS (European Health Data Space) world.
A broad spectrum of participants, including company representatives, health data agency researchers, developers, and more shared their impressions and visions. They shared experiences on joint challenges such as the data minimization principle, opt-out mechanism, and different regulation implementation in different countries. They also discussed what the limits of public goods and public interests are.
Everyone was able to share their expertise and knowledge of the EHDS and data sharing, create new insights, and identify gaps that still need to be addressed while implementing the EHDS regulation. After all, it was a successful test of this new EHDS role playing workshop.
Are you interested in EHDS challenges? Want to follow the GET REHDY developments? Would you like to repeat this workshop at your organisation or event? Get in touch!
