Madrid, June 14, 2024 - The Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service has agreed this morning with the Autonomous Communities the distribution of the budget of the National Health Data Space (ENDS), known as Data Lake Sanitaire. The cast was approved during the Sectoral Conference on Digital Transformation chaired by Minister José Luis Escrivá and attended by the Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, Mayte Ledo.
The National Health Data Space seeks to be the reference platform for data analysis that will identify and improve the diagnosis of diseases, predict health risk situations, and, ultimately, improve the health of citizens thanks to the information of the different health information systems and other relevant public data.
The investment in this initiative is 100M euros that come from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and, more specifically, from investment 6 of Component 18: Renewal and expansion of the capacities of the National Health System. This investment is intended for three lines of work:
- The acquisition of technological infrastructure for the construction of the health data lake
- Support work for the definition, development and deployment of use cases
- Preparation of the data and incorporation of the Autonomous Communities to the health data lake
The agreement adopted this morning between the Ministry and the Autonomous Communities, aims precisely at this last line of work.
This is the approval of the allocation of EUR 28 million between the regional governments, the autonomous cities and the National Institute of Health Management (INGESA), so that they can carry out the necessary work of preparation and interconnection of their data in the National Health Data Space. Specifically, for tasks such as:
- Definition and development of use cases
- Analysis, cleaning and data processing for security, privacy and quality
- Jobs for connectivity and interoperability
- Coordinating and collaborating with project managers
Cast
The distribution of the budget between the Communities is as follows:
| CCAA / Autonomous Cities and INGESA | Distribution |
| Andalusia | 3,798,383 |
| Aragon | 1,016,605 |
| Principality of Asturias | 887.905 |
| Illes Balears | 961,782 |
| Canary Islands | 1.348.443 |
| Cantabria | 727,487 |
| Castile and Leon | 1,416,980 |
| Castilla la Mancha | 1.300.913 |
| Catalonia | 3,544,638 |
| Valencian Community | 2.506.193 |
| Extremadura | 906.084 |
| Galicia | 1,538,594 |
| Community of Madrid | 3.140.881 |
| Region of Murcia | 1.098.468 |
| Navarre | 759,553 |
| Basque Country | 1,354,974 |
| La Rioja | 625.153 625.153 |
| Ceuta | 266,975 |
| Melilla | 266,975 |
| INGESA (Ceuta and Melilla) | 533,479 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL 28.000.000 |
A fixed amount (34 per cent of the total budget) and another variable depending on the volume of the population (66 per cent of the total budget) have been taken into account to ensure that all of them maintain a sufficient level of technological and organizational resources to make data available for the development of the National Health Data Area.
The Autonomous Communities will be able to execute this budget until December 2025.
The National Health Data Area is a highly complex project, which requires the synchronization of many actors and participants and will allow Spain to be at the forefront of Europe in terms of the use and sharing of health data for secondary use in line with the future European Health Data Spaces Regulation (European Health Data Space), which is expected to be approved by the end of 2024.
AI strategy
The Sectoral Conference has dealt with other issues such as the Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024.