New BBMRI-ERIC podcast episode: Exploring the Lightweight Distributed Provenance Model for Complex Real–world Environments – biobanking, medical research data and reproducibility

“We realised we needed to start something new to address the medical research reproducibility crisis.”

The latest episode of the BBMRI-ERIC podcast is now available. It explores a paper that was recently published in Nature which illustrates a lightweight distributed provenance model designed for complex, real-world, environments.

The paper has been researched and written by a wide-ranging group of experts and two of them, BBMRI staff – Rudolf Wittner, IT Scientist and Petr Holub, Chief IT Officer – help to explain the model’s significance for biobanking, reproducibility and the broader field of medical research data.

You can access the paper here.

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“Without the patient citizen’s data, there is no future for research.”

Episode 25 takes you to a workshop on information points for citizens under the European Health Data space. The workshop is jointly organised under the EHDS2Pilot project by BBMRI-ERIC’s ethical, legal and societal implications team and the Spanish Research Council in Brussels – CSIC where the workshop is being held.

The project brings together 17 partners including health data access bodies, health data sharing infrastructures and European agencies with the aim to build a pilot version of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) infrastructure for the secondary use of health data – known as “HealthData@EU” – which will serve research, innovation, policy making and regulatory purposes.

The outcome is for the consortium to collaborate closely with the European Commission and their team working on developing the central services for secondary use of health data.

Why does communicating about EHDS matter?

Under EHDS, citizens will have an opt out right in Europe so they need to be made aware their data may be used outside the immediate healthcare context. EHDS has provisions for individual control of data. How much should you make citizens aware of the use of their data and opt out rights?

This is a major topic that is being debated in political spaces and across European health communities. That’s because, if you care about how your health data might be used for research, EHDS is relevant to you.

The podcast explores how best to communicate with citizens that their rights are taken seriously, that they can keep in control of their data and its use, and to fulfil the legal obligations under the EHDS regulation.

Join patient organisations, experts and policy makers as they discuss the varied concepts that exist in the EU. You’ll hear about successful initiatives for informing the public about ongoing data sharing activities, as well as understanding past communication failures to give you a better understanding of what will help foster the implementation of the upcoming EHDS Regulation.

About the podcast series

The BBMRI-ERIC podcast explores the many aspects of biobanking and biomolecular research via our in-house experts, National Nodes and biobanks.

Episodes cover Quality, IT and ELSI topics that include webinars on contemporary issues and thoughtful conversations on new developments.

You can access the podcast via the embedded player here or on all the usual podcast platforms – Apple, Spotify, Radio Public and Google. Subscribe via your preferred platform to receive new episodes.

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New BBMRI-ERIC podcast episode: Exploring the Lightweight Distributed Provenance Model for Complex Real–world Environments – biobanking, medical research data and reproducibility

“Without the patient citizen’s data, there is no future for research.”

Why does communicating about EHDS matter?

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