HD4RES v1 versus HD4RES v2

HD4RES v1

HD4RES is an application developed by healthdata.be and installed at Sciensano that allows the manager of the data collection to communicate with the data provider without knowing the identification of the patient. Data are sent automatically or by pressing a submit button to the central HD4RES application via eHealth. A mechanism of encryption is put in place assuring that nobody has access to the patient identifier and medical information except the data provider.

The researcher receives the data in the software component HD4RES where he/she can monitor the status of his/her data collection, check the data and, if necessary, ask additional questions to the data provider, e.g. regarding the quality of the data.

To this end, healthdata.be sends a message back to the data provider via ehBox coding. This contains the encrypted data, together with the medical-scientific data that are encrypted with respect to the data provider. eHealth-platform takes care of the decryption of the encrypted data and delivers the data to the data provider.

HD4RES was a temporary solution. The challenge for HealthData in Architecture 1 was that all healthcare organizations and all healthcare professionals should be able to provide data in a structured and encoded way to the researcher. The records collected from the data providers could follow many itineraries, making monitoring a complex matter.

HD4RES v2

The main objective of HD4RES V2.0 is to simplify HD4RES.

Like in Architecture 1.0, the researcher will be able to monitor the Architecture 2.0 dataflow end-to-end. The feedback loop, however, will be taken out of HD4RES V2 and will be integrated into the Quality Control tool

This will be possible at HD-DWH. The researcher will have an overview and status of all (external and internal) dataflows for his/her project only, as well as an overview of all HD4DP v2 and healthstat.be accounts for his/her project only.

The feedback loop will be taken out of .

As HD4RES becomes part of the Quality Control tool, the application HD4RES as such disappears; it becomes now a block SAS eGuide in DWH that takes over that function. The application has become a mere monitoring tool

Unlike in Architecture

n HD4RES v2, the researcher will have an overview and status of all (external and internal) dataflowsfor his/her projec

he researcher will have an overview of all HD4DP v2 and healthstat.be accountsfor his/her project.