The project BRIDGE Health (Bridging Information and Data Generation for Evidence based Health Policy and Research) has been launched by EU in May 2015 with the aim of creating European health information (EU-HI) and data generation networks covering major EU health policy areas. The networks used comprehensive experience and assured a knowledge transfer from past health and research frameworks. The goal was to work towards a comprehensive, integrated and sustainable EU-HI supporting evidence-based health policy and research for the EU and Member States by providing blueprints and/or concepts of building blocks for a future EU-HI research infrastructure consortium (ERIC-HI).

 

The project lasted 30 months and involved 16 EU countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom, Portugal, Slovenia, Hungary, Sweden, Austria.

 

The project bridged key EU projects in domains of population and health system monitoring and indicator development, health examination surveys, environment and health, population injury and diseases registries, clinical and administrative health data collection systems and methods of health system monitoring and evaluation.

 

Coordination, dialogue and interaction with DG-Santé, the Expert Group on Health Information, Eurostat, DG Research and other DGs ensured the sustainability of the work and bridged to a future ERIC-HI (European research infrastructure consortium for Health Information).

 

The project was coordinated by Herman Van Oyen (Institut Scientific de Santè Publique di Bruxelles) and consisted of 12 work packages (WP) and in 7 horizontal activities (HA).

 

The leadership of WP 8 (Platform for population based registries) and of HA 5 (Data quality methods including internal and external validation of indicators) was assigned to Istituto Superiore di Sanità. For more information on WP 8 and HA 5 visit the dedicated pages.

 

Work Package (WP)		Horizontal Activity (HA)
WP 1	Coordination	HA 1		Transferability of health information and data for policy
WP 2	Dissemination	HA 2		Health information inequality within the EU and within MS
WP 3	Evaluation	HA 3		Information at regional level (ECHI indicators, health inequalities) and for specific population groups
WP 4	European Core Health Indicators Monitoring (ECHIM)	HA 4		Standardization methods of the collection and exchange of health information
WP 5	Harmonized population based health examination surveys	HA 5		Data quality methods including internal and external validation of indicators
WP 6	Impacts of environmental chemicals on health	HA 6		Priority setting methods in health information
WP 7	Reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH)	HA 7		Ethical and legal issues in health information
WP 8	Platform for population based registries
WP 9	Platform for Injury Surveillance
WP 10	Building a platform for administrative data on Health Care
WP 11	Integration of approaches in EU information system for health monitoring and reporting
WP 12	Evaluation of health care systems

 

The work packages activities were achieved by the partners of the different participating States. The horizontal activities, focused on general targets, involved all project partners.

 

For more information on BRIDGE Health visit the official site of the project.

 

CCM-BRIDGE project

To support the activities of the European project BRIDGE Health at national level, the Italian Ministry of Health (Center for Disease Control, CCM) has also launched the CCM-BRIDGE project “Creation and development of the Italian network to support the European project BRIDGE Health aimed to support structuring and sustainability of the European activities in health information (HI)”. The project was led and coordinated by the National Institute of Health.

 

For more information visit the page dedicated to CCM-BRIDGE project.