The European Data Protection Supervisor issued an opinion on the European Commission's framework for a European Health Data Space as part of the EU data strategy. The EDPS said it supports a health data exchange but "underlines the necessity for data protection safeguards to be defined at the outset of the creation of the EHDS." Additionally, the EDPS called for the EHDS to come with a "robust legal basis" and work to narrow the fragmentation of current rules for health data processing.
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