White Paper
Connected Healthcare: Building an Interoperable and People-Centered Care Ecosystem
This white paper examines how Belgium can advance connected healthcare through better data exchange, integrated care, and collaboration across hospitals, primary care, home nursing, residential care, government, and technology providers. It highlights the European Health Data Space requirements for standardized electronic health records, prescriptions, and medication data, while noting the need for a clear national roadmap, funding, skills, and interoperable systems. Practical examples include Wit-Gele Kruis sharing home-care records with physicians and BELFHINDA enabling hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to study lung-cancer data while keeping information within hospitals. The paper stresses that citizens must remain central, prevention should be rewarded, and workflows must reflect
