WellData, also known as Dataruimte voor Preventie, is an Interreg Flanders-Netherlands project supported by the European Union. The project explores how lifestyle and wellbeing data can be used more effectively and responsibly to strengthen preventive healthcare.
Healthcare systems in Flanders and the Netherlands are under increasing pressure due to ageing populations and the growing number of people living with chronic conditions. WellData responds to this challenge by investigating how citizens, healthcare organisations, researchers and policymakers can make better use of health-related data to support prevention, health promotion and more informed decision-making.
Over the past years, the project has examined several key conditions for the responsible use of lifestyle and wellbeing data. These include technical interoperability and secure data exchange, a standardised set of health indicators to measure health in a more uniform way, and an ethical, legal and social framework for the use of this data. Together, these insights form the basis for the further development of a personal health data space. The WellData platform acts as a proof-of-concept, showing how citizens could manage and share their health data in a controlled and meaningful way.
To better understand the technology and approach in practice, WellData is preparing pilot studies in different regions in Flanders and the Netherlands. In these fieldlabs, citizens, researchers and care organisations work together to explore the WellData platform and its possible applications.
These pilots examine how lifestyle and wellbeing data can be used in a useful, responsible and practical way to support preventive healthcare. They also help identify what is needed for citizens and professionals to trust, understand and apply data-driven prevention in real-life settings.
In addition, WellData continues to build a learning network in which organisations from healthcare, policy, research and industry share knowledge and experience around data-driven prevention and the future European Health Data Space.
As a partner in WellData, NSX contributes its expertise in evolvable, interoperable and scalable healthcare data architectures. Our role focuses on supporting the technical foundations that allow data from different sources and organisations to be exchanged securely, consistently and sustainably.
NSX contributes to WellData through:
To better understand the technology and approach in practice, WellData prepares pilot studies in different regions in Flanders and the Netherlands. In these fieldlabs, citizens, researchers and care organisations work together to explore how lifestyle and wellbeing data can be used in a responsible and useful way for preventive healthcare.
Through WellData, NSX and Zipster contribute to a learning network of organisations from healthcare, policy, research and industry. Together, these partners are building knowledge and practical experience around data-driven prevention, personal health data spaces and the future European Health Data Space.
WellData (Dataruimte voor Preventie) is an Interreg Flanders-Netherlands project, co-financed by the European Union and VLAIO.
NSX – Normalized Systems is proud to be a partner in the project, together with VITO, Domus Medica vzw, Zorgzaam Leuven, Selfcare BV, Sport Vlaanderen, Care Innovation Center West-Brabant, Nuts, Eindhoven University of Technology, LiCalab – Living & Care Lab, TNO, VAN | Vlaams Apothekers Netwerk, Avans Hogeschool, and Gezondheidshuis PIOEN – Lokaal Bestuur Vorselaar.
Within WellData, NSX contributes expertise in evolvable healthcare data architectures, technical interoperability, secure data exchange and the practical exploration of digital referral through Zipster.