Health Data Governance for the Digital Age
Implementing the OECD Recommendation on Health Data Governance
Health data are essential to modern health care delivery, health system management
and research and innovation, and must be well governed to foster their use while protecting
privacy and data security. The 2016 OECD Recommendation on Health Data Governance
provides a roadmap towards more harmonised approaches to health data governance across
countries. It recommends implementing national health data governance frameworks and
sets out the key principles to follow when doing so, while promoting trans-border
co-operation in data governance and interoperability. This report provides an overview
of the implementation of the Recommendation from 2016-2021 and finds that while there
are examples of good progress, overall many Adherents are still working towards implementation
in areas including data sharing, accessibility, quality, interoperability and security
and privacy protections. Efforts to support the implementation and dissemination of
the Recommendation will continue for the next reporting cycle (2022-27) with a focus
on cybersecurity, harmonising health data governance to allow for multi-country projects
and improving global health data interoperability.
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