European Brain Council

EBC aims to further explore the potential of eHealth for addressing challenges associated with brain disorders and has in this context contributed to the drafting of the Digital Health Society Declaration5 and provided input to the public consultation on Health and Care in the Digital Single Market. It is crucial for organisations, such as EBC, that a Europe-wide regulatory framework gets implemented, allowing stakeholders to fully harness the advantages of digitalisation. In this regard, EBC believes policymakers need to prioritise action in a certain number of areas such as health data sharing, mobile interventions or digital literacy. A recent report highlighted several potential benefits associated with the use of health data for research purposes, such as reduced duplication of research, the greater external validity of research and more opportunities to reveal patterns of causation (a result of linking datasets) (6).