The European Health Data Space (EHDS) is moving from framework to build phase, with several implementing regulations already adopted and a further wave of technical rules now in preparation. Many of these measures focus on the primary-use framework and will be most relevant to healthcare providers, Member States and electronic health record (EHR) system manufacturers. However, others are big news for businesses preparing for their new obligations as health data holders and health data users.…
From 2026, Hungarian legislation will allow access to health-related data stored in its National eHealth Infrastructure (EESZT) for AI development on a case-by-case basis. With this change, Hungary could capitalise on its investments into launching the EESZT platform in 2017 and standardising the health data collected by healthcare providers using the platform in the past years. In this article, we highlight the key differences compared to the EU’s European Health Data Space (EHDS) proposal and…
In Brief The long-awaited EU AI Act was published in the Official Journal of the European Union today, 12 July 2024. The Act regulates activities across the AI lifecycle, as covered in more detail in our previous post, and the countdown for implementation has now started for companies developing or deploying AI technologies, with the Act entering into force 20 days after its publication on 1 August 2024. The Act as a whole is generally applicable two…