The work of these projects will be implemented through three main work strands:

1. Work strand 1: The consortium will provide guidance for public authorities and healthcare providers to deploy, upgrade and operate digital health services and systems that support the rights of citizens for primary use of their electronic health data and fulfil their obligations under the EHDS. The consortium will support, through the cascading funding mechanism, activities of public authorities and healthcare providers (e.g. hospitals, clinics, healthcare providers) to deploy digital health services and systems that support the rights of citizens included in the EHDS and the adoption of the EEHRxF, as well as to convert electronic health data into the EEHRxF. As part of the deployment, capacity building activities such as training for staff or reengineering processes can be included.
2. Work strand 2: The consortium will develop a toolbox to support data holders in preparing electronic health data for secondary use in accordance with the EHDS. Through the cascading funding mechanism, it will support data holders to create and maintain dataset descriptions and, where applicable, data quality and utility labels for electronic health data falling within the scope of the EHDS. This strand will support data holders in publishing dataset descriptions and labels in the dataset catalogues operated by Health Data Access Bodies, thereby enabling data discoverability and access for secondary use. It will also support data holders in putting in place the necessary organisational and technical arrangements to make data available for secondary use under the EHDS, in line with applicable safeguards. Activities under this strand may include, where relevant, supporting data management practices, tooling and workflows, targeted IT deployment, staff training and process reengineering, insofar as these activities facilitate dataset description, cataloguing and secondary use readiness.
3. Work strand 3: It will develop a training framework and conduct trainings for service providers to prepare them to support public authorities and healthcare providers to deploy digital health services and systems that support the rights of citizens included in the EHDS. It will also prepare them to convert health data held by public authorities and healthcare providers from various formats to the EEHRxF and vice-versa, and to deploy processes and services to enable such conversions, and to create and maintain dataset descriptions and the corresponding labelling for data quality and utility as foreseen in the EHDS for secondary uses of data.

This action is aimed at providing the necessary support, tools, and incentives in complementarity with other associated projects under Digital Europe Programme, EU4Health and Horizon Europe, such as i2X, MyHealth@MyHands, Xt-EHR, TEHDAS2, x-Share, SHAIPED. It should cover a large number of Member States and be deployed supporting all the priority data categories under EHDS. The action contributes to the eHealth Target of the Digital Decade Policy programme established by Decision (EU) 2022/2481 of the European Parliament and of the Council (the ‘DDPP Decision’) [1] through the implementation of EHR systems and digital health services and systems enabling access of citizens to their EHRs as well as contributing to the implementation of the European Data Union Strategy by increasing data discoverability and improved data quality.