HD4RES v1

HD4RES is an application developed by healthdata.be and installed at Sciensano that allows the manager of the data collection to communicate with the data provider without knowing the identification of the patient. Data are sent automatically or by pressing a submit button to the central HD4RES application via eHealth. A mechanism of encryption is put in place assuring that nobody has access to the patient identifier and medical information except the data provider.

The researcher receives the data in a software component (Healthdata for Researchers: HD4RES) where he/she can monitor the status of his/her data collection, check the data and, if necessary, ask additional questions to the data provider.

This in order to have errors in the data corrected. To this end, healthdata.be sends a message back to the data provider via ehBox coding. This contains the encrypted data, together with the medical-scientific data that are encrypted with respect to the data provider. eHealth-platform takes care of the decryption of the encrypted data and delivers the data to the data provider.

the quality of the data in a uniform and secure manner.

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HD4RES was a temporary solution. The challenge for HealthData in Architecture 1 was that all healthcare organisations and all healthcare professionals should be able to provide data in a structured and encoded way to the researcher. The records collected from the data providers could follow many itineraries, making monitoring a complex matter.