The National Health Data Space (ENDS) is a strategic initiative of the Government of Spain to use health data in a safe, ethical and coordinated way for secondary use in research, innovation and public policy design. It is a digital infrastructure that allows access and analysis of this data in controlled environments, applying advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to generate knowledge and improve decision-making, always under strict guarantees of privacy, confidentiality and governance.
The ENDS is developed with an investment of 70 million euros from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and is structured around use cases as a mechanism to value the available data. The first use cases focus on priority areas such as the monitoring of drug use, the analysis of chronic or rare diseases and the anticipation of risks in public health, and serve as a basis for a progressive expansion towards new areas and needs of the health system.
