After more than a year and a half of work, the project has culminated in the creation of a "common, secure, and interoperable" space that facilitates the exchange of health data and its reuse for research, innovation, and improvement of healthcare. The results of this strategic initiative were presented at an event held at Incliva, which reviewed progress and highlighted the achievement of the project's main objective.
The main innovation derived from 'Integra DPs' is the definition of a sustainable model for data exchange and public-private collaboration within the healthcare ecosystem, facilitating access to data for secondary uses, "always under strict security and data protection guarantees".
This model allows professionals to have "more complete and homogeneous" information to develop clinical studies, evaluate health outcomes, and generate useful knowledge for healthcare decision-making. A "key" element in this advancement has been the adoption of the common data model OMOP CDM v5.4, which acts as an international standard for harmonizing clinical data.
The implementation of OMOP allows transforming information from multiple sources into a "common, structured, and semantically consistent" format, facilitating its reuse for clinical research, population analysis, health outcome evaluation, and the development of predictive models based on artificial intelligence.
As Incliva reported in a statement, this approach "not only improves the quality and comparability of data but also allows the Valencian Community to participate in national and international initiatives, aligning with the future European Health Data Space (EHDS)".
The contribution of the Systems Department to the 'Integra DPs' project has been "essential" for having a solid technical foundation on which to develop the Data Space. The work carried out has allowed the deployment and validation of the necessary infrastructure to connect the different participants, manage identities, publish catalog offers, and verify the correct functioning of the technical circuit for data access and transfer.
This evolution is "fundamental" for health data spaces to "add value to research, healthcare administration, businesses, and citizens, always maintaining control and protection of information". In this context, the progress made in data governance and data protection is particularly relevant, establishing the necessary foundations to ensure safe, ethical, and responsible use of health information.
During the event held at Incliva, the main advances and milestones achieved in the project were presented. The event was attended by representatives from the Conselleria de Sanitat: the three managers of the Departments involved in the study and David Moliner Mateu, head of the Interoperability and Data Space Service. Members of the research team led by Dr. Josep Redón and representatives from the companies that participated in the project also spoke.
