Towards the development of a network provisioning platform for data exchange in the health data space

The deployment of network provisioning mechanisms across data locations in the health domain requires a secure environment to enable reliable, trustworthy, and sovereign data exchange, addressing all legal and regulatory considerations. A data space solution can facilitate secure, interoperable data exchange among diverse stakeholders, fostering collaboration while ensuring data privacy and compliance. This paper aims to tackle the challenge of data exchange in the health domain by outlining the requirements, intended uses, key functionalities, and proposed services for implementing secure network sharing mechanisms within the data space ecosystem. Additionally, it investigates and compares existing minimum viable data spaces to identify the most suitable mechanism for developing a data space platform. The paper presents the development of an architectural framework for a data space-enabled platform designed for network-provisioned data exchange within the health data space. Finally, to validate the proposed data space architecture and services, several realistic scenarios are presented.