Hälsodata
Hälsodata is a collective term for datasets that describe health status, health care utilization, and determinants of health at the individual or population level. It encompasses clinical data from electronic health records and hospital information systems, disease and treatment registries, prescription and pharmacy data, laboratory results, imaging, as well as population health surveys and environmental or social determinants.
Sources include hospitals, primary care clinics, national health registries, laboratories, insurance and social security systems, and
Uses of Hälsodata include health services planning, epidemiological research, quality improvement, safety surveillance, evaluation of interventions,
Governance and ethics: under EU GDPR and national data protection laws, Hälsodata handling requires consent where
Challenges: fragmentation across providers, variable data quality, incomplete capture of social determinants, biases, and legal constraints
Opportunities: more accurate disease surveillance, personalized medicine, health inequality assessment, and rapid learning health systems.