News
Press releases, updates, and ecosystem news from the Health Data Safe Foundation.
Why Switzerland, and why Vaud
We established the Health Data Safe Foundation in Switzerland so that no one but the patient decides who can access and use their health data. Three things had to be true for that: constitutional protection of privacy, data that stays under Swiss law, and sharing that stays a choice.
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Portrait: Dr Thomas Bouchard, reproductive medicine clinician and HDS partner
Dr Thomas Bouchard is developing a women's health application on the HDS infrastructure, with a menstrual cycle registry planned, without having to manage data responsibility himself.
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Health Data Safe Foundation embraces Open-Pryv: building trust, enabling openness, and putting people at the center of health data
Health Data Safe is building its platform on Open-Pryv — an open-source, privacy-by-design system recognised as a Digital Public Good — and appoints Pryv's founder Pierre-Mikael Legris as CTO.
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Welcome to the Health Data Safe Foundation
HDS is a Swiss non-profit foundation giving people the tools to manage and share their health data securely, starting with women's health, where data has historically been incomplete and patients had little say.
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