HaDEA awards €8.2 million to connect Denmark, Belgium, Romania and Slovakia to MyHealth@EU

The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) announced nine new EU4Health-funded projects totalling €8.22 million to expand the MyHealth@EU cross-border health data infrastructure. Denmark will build its National Contact Point for eHealth from scratch under the EHDSIDenmark project, implementing Patient Summary and ePrescription services. Belgium, Romania, and Slovakia each received funding to establish or extend their own National Contact Points for cross-border health data exchange.

These grants convert political commitment into funded delivery programmes with live connections expected within 18 to 24 months of project start. Denmark has been a conspicuous gap in the MyHealth@EU network — a country with one of Europe's most mature domestic health data systems but no cross-border connection until now. Romania's inclusion is equally consequential: at €180 million in Recovery and Resilience Facility funding already earmarked for health data digitisation, this additional EU4Health grant adds the specific MyHealth@EU infrastructure component that the RRF allocation did not cover.