Ineco supports the Data Directorate General (under the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence - SEDIA) in the promotion of a health data space for the mass processing of health information. This support, initiated in 2023 with the SGAD, General Secretariat for Digital Administration (recently converted into the State Agency for Digital Administration), consists of the definition, logical and physical design of a technological infrastructure for the creation of a National Health Data Space or National Health Data Lake, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Autonomous Communities.
This platform will enable the Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities -(as well as other actors in the National Health System such as health and research centres, official health agencies, scientific societies, professionals, etc) to share and consult information, and in the future, to be interoperable with the European Data Space.
Technical information
Secure and massive storage
A data lake is a secure, massive storage system for raw, unprocessed data in any format and of any type, whether structured (databases), unstructured (emails, PDFs, text documents), binary (images, videos, audio) or semi-structured (CSV files, XML, etc.). This has advantages over data warehouses. As they are stored without pre-treatment, they have greater flexibility, as they are useful for many different purposes. In addition, they are particularly useful for the application of advanced analytics using Big Data techniques and for machine learning in artificial intelligence platforms.
The National Health Data Space aims to be able to apply advanced analytics on millions of data through Big Data, to detect disease patterns or drug behaviour, among other cases, that would otherwise be undetectable.
This infrastructure is planned with centralised data governance, with common standards, norms, roles and tools, and ensuring connectivity, quality and security at all times.
In the future, and not exclusively, it could also be the access node to the European Health Data Space.
