BRIDGE Health: BRidging Information and Data Generation for Evidence-based Health Policy and Research: Petronille Bogaert (2024)

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The objective of BRIDGE-Health is to create a European health information system (EU-HIS) infrastructure. The project bridges the best of the EU projects in domains of population and health system monitoring, indicator development, health examination surveys, environment and health, population injury and disease registries, clinical and administrative health data collection systems and methods of health systems monitoring and evaluation. BRIDGE-Health gives attention:

1. to enhance the transferability of health information and data for policy and improve the utility and use of data and indicators for stakeholders in policy making, public health surveillance and health care;

2. to reduce health information inequality within the EU and MS's;

3. to develop a blueprint for a roadmap for a sustainable and integrated EU Health information system by identifying key features among others: (a) method of standardization of health information gathering and exchange between population health and health systems information within and between Member States; (b) methods of standardization of data quality assurance systems; (c) methods of health information priority settings and (d) harmonization of ethic-legal issues.

Coordination, dialogue and interaction with the Commission Expert Group on Health Information, Eurostat, DG Research, MS's will ensure the sustainability of the work. The main outcome of BRIDGE Health is a concept paper, including scope, tasks, activities and governance structure, of a future EU-HIS System Infrastructure. The paper presents the strengths and limitations of a set of possible structures. The concept paper will be presented in a form that can serve as a draft agreement between interested Member States, candidate and EEA/EFTA countries and international organizations on the construction of a EU HIS infrastructure.

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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8.F. Regular workshop: Health information in Europe. Quo vadis?

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