FORTIFY kick-off meeting maps out priorities for practical EHDS implementation with IP safeguards
The project will develop legal guidance, technical safeguards and validation pathways to help health data access bodies, data holders and users apply the EHDS in practice.
Discussions pointed to three early pressure points for EHDS implementation: legal uncertainty over protected data, the need for robust traceability and access safeguards, and the challenge of creating tools that work across real-world use cases from clinical trials to genomics.
FORTIFY launches to protect innovation while enabling health data reuse in Europe
The project will develop and test practical safeguards—contracts, governance models and traceability—to support trusted EHDS data sharing
The IHI-funded FORTIFY project has officially launched to address a core challenge for the European Health Data Space (EHDS): how to enable the secondary use of health data for research while safeguarding intellectual property, trade secrets and commercially sensitive information.
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