
From Regulation to Infrastructure: Testing the Secondary-Use Pathway for AI Training under the EHDS (Brussels, BE)
The Chair is organizing a workshop at the upcoming CPDP 2026 conference on May 20 in Brussels. The workshop will be moderated by Pankaj Raj.
The objective of the workshop is to test the provisions of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) in practice through a concrete use case involving the need for health data to train a cardiovascular disease prediction AI model. The session will examine how the EHDS framework operationalizes the secondary use of health data for AI model training and research purposes.
Beginning with the roles and obligations of Data Users, Health Data Access Bodies (HDABs), and Data Holders, the workshop will critically explore how these actors interact within the EHDS governance structure. Through an interactive discussion format, the session aims to identify practical challenges, regulatory ambiguities, and tensions that may arise in the implementation and operationalization of the EHDS secondary-use pathway.
The workshop seeks to have a productive dialogue on the transition from regulatory text to real-world data infrastructure for trustworthy and compliant AI development in healthcare.