🔓 Europe is about to unlock health data, paving the way for better care, research and policy. The challenge now is to make this work in practice—while protecting intellectual property and sustaining innovation. 🏥💡

The European Health Data Space (EHDS) is designed to accelerate research and innovation through secondary use of health data. Yet, for many data holders—whether hospitals, research centres or industry—the dilemma is clear: sharing data or outputs often means losing control and traceability, creating genuine risks to intellectual property, trade secrets and commercially sensitive information. 🛡️

That tension slows collaboration, increases uncertainty, and delays the breakthroughs patients are waiting for.

🚀FORTIFY—an IHI-funded project bringing together 33 partners- has launched to prove that data sharing and innovation protection do not have to be a trade‑off.

Over the next three years, FORTIFY will develop, test and validate practical solutions across law + governance + technology, including:

• clear legal guidance and operational procedures for IP‑sensitive secondary use
• model contracts and template clauses to reduce ad‑hoc negotiation
• technical safeguards such as traceability and watermarking, plus guidance for synthetic/anonymised/transformed data
• practical training and policy recommendations to support consistent uptake by EHDS stakeholders

Read the full anouncement here:  

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