The Health Data Hub, created on 30 November 2019, is part of the French node of TEF-Health. It takes over the missions of the French Health Data Institute while expanding them. Its range of services for those seeking access to health data covers:

• A single gateway facilitating access to the necessary health data for projects contributing to public interest, while respecting patients' rights and ensuring transparency towards civil society.
• A documented data catalog, built up progressively to make priority data available to the community (historical SNDS, cohorts, registers, hospital data, etc.).
• A secure, state-of-the-art platform offering data storage, calculation, matching and analysis capabilities, enabling innovative projects sometimes considered impossible today.
• A range of tools to help bring together key actors within the ecosystem.

Under the Digital Europe Programme, the European Commission, in collaboration with several Member States, is co-financing a 5-year project that started in January 2023 under the name Testing and Experimentation Facility for Health AI and Robotics (TEF-Health; Project: 101100700 — TEF-Health — DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-02).

TEF-Health is coordinated by Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany and comprises 52 partners from 9 European Union countries — each forming a so-called Node. The project is co-financed by national funding provided by Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Slovakia and Sweden.

TEF-Health establishes a network of testing facilities offering access to physical and digital infrastructure, consulting, data and computational resources, living labs, laboratory testing facilities and real-world testing environments — supporting healthcare innovators in making their solutions compliant with the EU AI Act and other regulations.

The objective of this call is to provide access to testing facilities that enable healthcare innovators to validate and scale up their Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics solutions in realistic large-scale environments. These facilities aim to bridge the gap between innovation and market deployment by offering a safe, sustainable, and ethically supervised environment for testing new technologies.

Core HDH services available to selected SMEs:

1. Simple use case support — including secure processing environment use (without access and/or linkage to the French National Healthcare Data System).
2. Complex use case support — including secure processing environment use (with access and/or linkage to the French National Healthcare Data System).

These services include:

• Project launch — assistance in framing the project, particularly in identifying and implementing regulatory procedures; establishment of contacts with relevant stakeholders; support in collaborating with bodies in charge of health data, particularly with regards to contracting and meeting technical prerequisites.
• Institutional actor support — particularly when several data sources are involved and need to be combined or synchronized.
• Data handling — support for data custodians in extracting, structuring, qualifying, documenting, standardizing and/or transferring data involved as part of the project.
• Support to research implementation — provision of technological capabilities (dedicated project spaces with computing resources for 3 years, state-of-the-art data management, analysis and visualization tools, alongside user onboarding and ongoing technical support); expert support (legal, data scientist, engineer, etc.); training and networking.
• Results and project valorization — communication events, networking within the ecosystem, etc.

Additional optional services (also at €0 under de-minimis):

• Protocol review — rigorous evaluation of experimental design, statistical power, reagent specificity and controls to ensure methodological integrity and data reliability, identifying potential biases or flaws before study commencement.
• Protocol writing — comprehensive scientific protocol authorship: experimental design, statistical considerations, methodological steps, robust control measures.
• Analysis — in-depth data analysis expertise, specifically focused on the exploitation of the French National Health Data System (SNDS) and, where applicable, its linkage with other datasets. Deliverables include commented R or Python programs for data processing and a detailed report with descriptive and analytical results, visualizations, conclusions and recommendations — completed within 60 days.

SMEs from European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) member states may receive discounted services, if the applicable conditions are met (see Eligibility & Evaluation Process).

The call stays open until 30 May 2026.

For questions related to the application process, please use the chatter function in the TEF-Health Platform after registration. For all other questions, contact info@tefhealth.eu.