This is an authorization that is making a lot of noise.
The CNIL has given the green light to the creation of a health data warehouse of French and European citizens which will be hosted on the cloud infrastructures of the American Microsoft.
Made public on January 31, this decision responded to a request for authorization - mandatory - which was made last August by the Health Data Hub (HDH).
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This public actor, responsible for centralizing the most important health databases in France for research purposes, also ensures the development of a European platform intended for research, called EMC2, on behalf of the European Health Agency. drugs.
This warehouse will contain the data - pseudonymised - of French patients from four hospitals and components of the main existing public health databases (health insurance, etc.).
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However, as the CNIL itself points out, the choice of Microsoft made by the Health Data Hub for the hosting of…
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