The European Commission has launched the European Strategy for Data, which aims to create a single digital market for data that ensures Europe's global competitiveness and data sovereignty. Creating a common European data space will ensure that more data becomes available for use in the economy and society, while keeping the companies and individuals who generate the data in control. The European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation is the first proposal for such a domain-specific common European data space. It will address health-specific challenges for access to and sharing of electronic health data and is one of the European Commission's health priorities. It will be an integral part of building a European Health Union. EHDS will create a common space where individuals can easily control their electronic health data.

As part of this work, the European Commission has initiated the X-eHealth project whose purpose is to produce technical and functional specifications for the prioritised areas of laboratory results, medical images, discharge reports and patient summary for rare diseases. These specifications also form the basis for the implementation of the next generation of cross-border e-health services that are implemented in the member states' national contact points, MyHealth@EU, in addition to e-prescriptions and patient summary that are currently shared between several member states.

As deeply involved in the X-eHealth project, Manne and Espen will report on the development, content and results of this work. The focus will be on the technical and functional specifications with use cases and functional flows, information structures and used standards such as IHE profiles, CDA, FHIR, Snomed CT, Loinc.

Finally, the X-eHealth project is briefly described in a larger context and how this affects Sweden and what the next step in this development will be.