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Personal Health Train

Connecting health data for health care and research

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The Personal Health Train (PHT) is designed to enable health care professionals, innovators and researchers to work with health data from various sources. It enables responsible access to data, while ensuring privacy protection and optimal engagement of individual patients and citizens.

About the Personal Health Train Network

The PHT concept has quickly spread outside the research domain. Various organizations now show their interest in applying the PHT to different health related topics. To learn from each other’s experiences and solutions, these organizations participate in the Personal Health Train network.

The PHT learning community is a focus group that will converge the available implementations into a generic PHT definition.

Lygature has been instrumental in getting the Personal Health Train network up and running. Program management, Community management and communication is carried out through Lygature.

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Project updates


  • Personal Health Train winnaar Computable Award 2020

    De PHT heeft de Computable Award gewonnen met bijna een derde van de stemmen in de categorie Zorgproject. Toonaangevende partners in de zorg bouwen met de PHT samen aan een privacyvriendelijk en duurzaam informatiestelsel voor het opslaan, uitwisselen en analyseren van gezondheidsgegevens.

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  • How to positively engage patients in data sharing: Lessons from new initiative Share2Care

    Data collected through routine healthcare is about people. People should play a central role in deciding how their data is used, for example for research. This is what the team behind new data-sharing initiative Share2Care believes.

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  • Stories from the work field: The Personal Health Train in health care

    FAIR data and the Personal Health Train (PHT) are concepts that are being applied more and more often. Examples of the diverse applications have now been made available through interviews with the users in the work field. They show how Dutch organisations actually use the Personal Health Train in daily practice.

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