Developing an infrastructure for secure patient summary exchange in the EU context: Lessons learned from the KONFIDO...

Area of Science:

• Health Informatics
• Information Security
• eHealth

Background:

• Digitalization in healthcare introduces significant information security risks.
• The EU H2020 KONFIDO project was initiated to address these risks.
• Secure cross-border health data exchange is a critical need.

Purpose of the Study:

• To provide a toolkit supporting secure cross-border health data exchange.
• To identify barriers and facilitators for eHealth acceptance.
• To analyze user goals, threats, and legal challenges in eHealth.

Main Methods:

• Focused on "User Goals" and eHealth acceptance factors.
• Conducted threat analysis and legal challenge assessments for user scenarios.
• Developed a toolkit to enhance the security of the OpenNCP framework.

Main Results:

• Highlighted key project outcomes and "Lessons Learned".
• Detailed technical challenges and the European Union (EU) context.
• Identified barriers to robust EU-wide health data exchange infrastructure.

Conclusions:

• Emphasized the need for improved infrastructure, technical capacity, and usability.
• Recommended transparent, standards-based development and knowledge dissemination.
• Provided recommendations for a robust EU-wide health data exchange infrastructure.