1 Amendments of Pierre BERNARD
Amendment 221 #
2020/0102(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Experience from the COVID-19 crisis has indicated that there is a general need for the support to structural transformation of and systemic reforms of health systems across the Union to improve their effectiveness, accessibility and resilience. In the context of such transformation and reforms, the Programme should promote, in synergy with the Digital Europe Programme, actions which advance digital transformation of health services and increase their interoperability, contribute to the increased capacity of health systems to foster disease prevention and health promotion, to provide new care models and to deliver integrated services , from the community and primary health care to the highly specialised services, based on people's needs and ensure an efficient public health workforce equipped with the right skills, including digital skills. The development of aprogramme should facilitate the collection of large clinical and biological databases to better understand emerging threats, rare and low prevalence diseases. Health data, and how it can be securely shared in full respect of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s requirements, will be critically important to fight any kind of health crisis and to improve the management of communicable and non- communicable diseases. In this regard, the development of the future European health data space will be a crucial step to support patients and their health providers directly, to ensure that citizens have control over their personal data, to facilitate research and to support the development of diagnostics, treatments and services. The European health data space would provide health care systems, researchers and public authorities with means to improve the availability and quality of healthcare. Given the fundamental right to access to preventive healthcare and medical treatment enshrined in Article 35 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and in view to the common values and principles in European Union Health Systems as set out in the Council Conclusions of 2 June 200612 the Programme should support actions ensuring the universality and inclusivity of health care, meaning that no- one is barred access to health care, and those ensuring that patients’ rights, including on the privacy of their data, are duly respected. The more the Union relies on shared data in order to improve European healthcare, the more the EU will increase its independence over the GAFAM, its cybersecurity capabilities to guarantee data safety and to avoid security breaches that would expose personal information of patients. __________________ 12Council Conclusions on Common values and principles in European Union Health Systems (OJ C 146, 22.6.2006, p. 1).