Bridging Information and Data Generation for Evidence-based Health Policy and Research
BRIDGE-Health (BRidging Information and Data Generation for Evidence-based Health Policy and Research) aims to create
European health information (EU-HI) and data generation networks covering major EU health policy areas. The network
uses comprehensive experience and assures a knowledge transfer from past health and research frameworks.
The aim is to work towards a comprehensive, integrated and sustainable EU-HI supporting evidence-based health policy and
research for the EU and Member States by providing blueprints and/or concepts of building blocks for a future EU-HI
research infrastructure consortium (ERIC-HI).
The project bridges key EU projects in domains of population and health system monitoring and indicator development,
health examination surveys, environment and health, population injury and disease registries, clinical and administrative
health data collection systems and methods of health system monitoring and evaluation.
The project aims to:
1) enhance the transferability of health information and data for policy and improve the utility and use of data and indicators
for stakeholders in policy making, public health surveillance and health care;
2) reduce health information inequality within the EU and within MS;
3) develop a blueprint for a sustainable and integrated EU Health information system by developing common methods for a)
standardising the collection and exchange of health information within and between domains, between MS, including ehealth
platforms; b) ensuring data quality, including procedures for internal and external validation of health indicators; c)
undertaking priority setting exercises for health information, d) addressing ethical and legal issues associated with the
collection and use of health data within MS and the EU.
Coordination, dialogue and interaction with DG-SANCO, the Expert Group on Health Information, Eurostat, DG Research
and other DGs ensure the sustainability of the work and bridges to a future ERIC-HI.
Acronym:
BRIDGE-Health
Author:
García Armesto, Sandra
Principal researcher:
Herman van Oyen
Scope:
Internacional
Entidades participantes:
INSTITUT SCIENTIFIQUE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE Bruxelles (Coordinator)
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (INSERM) France
IIS Aragón Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (IACS)
ROBERT KOCH-INSTITUT
TERVEYDEN JA HYVINVOINNIN LAITOS (THL) Finland
Beratungsgesellschaft für integrierte Problemlösungen (BiPRO) Germany
Umwelt Bundesamt (UBA)
Fundació Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental (CREAL)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Vlaams Instituut voor Technologische Ontwikkeling (VITO)
KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET (KU)
Folkehelseinstituttet (FHI) /Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)
Dublin City University (DCU)
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA (ISS)
HUB INTERNATIONZIONALE PER LA RICERCA SANITARIA (HIRS)
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY (SU)
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND SAFETY PROMOTION –EUROSAFE (ES)
Syddansk Universitet (University of Southern Denmark (SDU))
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon Economics Faculty (FE-UNL))
Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje (NIJZ)
Semmelweis Egyetem (Semmelweis University (SU))
Universitetet i Oslo (University of Oslo (UIO))
Karolinska Institutet (KI)
University Bocconi (UB)
HealthSystemIntelligence (HSI)
Technische universtität Berlin (TUB)
Institut de Recherches et de documentation en Economie de la Santé (IRDES)
MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN (Medical University of Vienna (MUW))
BRIDGE-Health (BRidging Information and Data Generation for Evidence-based Health Policy and Research) aims to create
European health information (EU-HI) and data generation networks covering major EU health policy areas. The network
uses comprehensive experience and assures a knowledge transfer from past health and research frameworks.
The aim is to work towards a comprehensive, integrated and sustainable EU-HI supporting evidence-based health policy and
research for the EU and Member States by providing blueprints and/or concepts of building blocks for a future EU-HI
research infrastructure consortium (ERIC-HI).
The project bridges key EU projects in domains of population and health system monitoring and indicator development,
health examination surveys, environment and health, population injury and disease registries, clinical and administrative
health data collection systems and methods of health system monitoring and evaluation.
The project aims to:
1) enhance the transferability of health information and data for policy and improve the utility and use of data and indicators
for stakeholders in policy making, public health surveillance and health care;
2) reduce health information inequality within the EU and within MS;
3) develop a blueprint for a sustainable and integrated EU Health information system by developing common methods for a)
standardising the collection and exchange of health information within and between domains, between MS, including ehealth
platforms; b) ensuring data quality, including procedures for internal and external validation of health indicators; c)
undertaking priority setting exercises for health information, d) addressing ethical and legal issues associated with the
collection and use of health data within MS and the EU.
Coordination, dialogue and interaction with DG-SANCO, the Expert Group on Health Information, Eurostat, DG Research
and other DGs ensure the sustainability of the work and bridges to a future ERIC-HI.