Version 1.0

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.

HD4RES was a temporary solution. The challenge for HealthData in Architecture 1 was that all healthcare organisations 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, what made monitoring a complex matter.