Athumi @ The Expo: Manage My Health

Athumi, founded by the Flemish Government as a neutral data intermediary, helps companies and sectors to achieve more data collaboration. Athumi has a clear B2B focus, but also operates in a B2B2C context with a social mission towards citizens and society. Thanks to Athumi, citizens can safely participate in the data economy, while companies gain more opportunities to offer innovative B2B and B2C services.

Athumi wants to bring companies closer to their users and consumers.

By providing control and transparency about sensitive data to consumers, by creating trust between companies, we can keep more data flowing.

And more data means more innovation. Since Athumi is a neutral party and has no business interest in the data we collaborate with, we are ideally placed to introduce companies to this new form of data collaboration, across the borders of their home market.

Every new data highway, every new connection opens up new possibilities for new products, new services, new revenue models.

Athumi Pods are 'Personal Online Datastores', personal data vaults where consumers can store their personal data and choose who has access to what data and for what period in time.

Vitalink is a secure IT platform that shares structured health information between various health actors involved in your care. Of course, you can also gain access to your own file yourself. In the future it will be possible to add information yourself, giving you more insight into your health and more control over your treatment.

Thanks to information sharing, healthcare providers can work together more effectively and they always have the most recent basic information at their disposal. This is particularly crucial for health information that is essential to ensure continuity of care, enable integrated care provision and contribute to preventive care provision. This means that, for example, you also have access to important information from the file that your general practitioner keeps about you in the hospital.

The data shared via Vitalink includes your medication schedule, a summary of your medical file with your general practitioner, vaccinations, the Kind&Gezin file for young children, population studies for cancer, and so on.

Vitalink acts as the platform where all this data is stored and shared, although it is not a separate software application itself. Healthcare providers are connected to Vitalink via their own software package or the hospital's electronic patient file. As a citizen, you can consult your data via web applications such as MijnGezondheid, MyHealthViewer, Cozo, MyNexusHealth, and via mobile apps such as My Medicines or Helena. More information: Vitalink.

The Athumi personal data vault and the Vitalink digital health vault differ in focus and objectives. Vitalink is a Flemish health vault for healthcare providers to facilitate data exchange and support care continuity, while Athumi's personal data vault within the Solid ecosystem focuses on secure data exchange at the request of the citizen. Both vaults complement and reinforce each other in the interest of the citizen within the data sharing ecosystem in the healthcare sector.

In Vitalink you will find the data that your healthcare providers need to work together, in accordance with the rules agreed upon interfederally. If you also want to share some of that data with others, or if you want to share data other than that from Vitalink with your healthcare providers, you can do this with Athumi.

Vitalink is part of the interfederal eHealth ecosystem, making it connected to the hospital networks and to Vitalink's counterparts in Wallonia and Brussels. Uniform agreements apply within this network with regard to the management and protection of personal data. Your data will only be shared if you have given explicit permission for it to be shared. This permission applies to both data exchange between hospitals and to connections with primary care via Vitalink. In addition, a careful system of healthcare relationships has been set up, so that only healthcare providers with whom you have a formal relationship are allowed to consult or supplement your data. You have the option to view and adjust your healthcare relationships and consent online via platforms such as Mijn gezondheid, MyHealthViewer, Cozo, and so on. More information: Informed consent and healthcare relationships | Vitalink.

We Are gives citizens control over their personal health data. The We Are tools and principles allow people to manage their own data and decide who has access to what data. For more information see We Are.

We Are is being developed by a partnership of various healthcare organizations, namely Domus Medica, VITO, the Flemish Patient Platform and Zorgnet Icuro. Together they create a sustainable system for managing personal health data. For more information see We Are.

People's trust is essential to share and reuse their health data. Not only do we build security into the technology and infrastructure, We Are also effectively shapes that trust in how you give permission for data. We make it very transparent and visual who uses your data and for what purpose and you always decide who has permission for how long and for what, and you can withdraw it at any time.

For more information see We Are.