Health Data Hub

What Health Data Hub does

Health Data Hub (Plateforme des données de santé) is a French public interest group (groupement d'intérêt public) constituted by ministerial decree on 29 November 2019 under the Law of 24 July 2019. It operates a secure, cloud-based technological platform that serves as the single national gateway for accessing pseudonymised health data from the Système National des Données de Santé (SNDS). The platform stores data in isolated project workspaces on certified Health Data Host infrastructure (currently migrating from Microsoft Netherlands to sovereign provider Scaleway), enforces role-based access controls, hardware security module-managed encryption keys, and multi-factor authentication, and prohibits raw data export. Approximately 50 internal software services underpin the platform, with more than half dedicated to security functions.

The organization is governed as a public-interest entity with 56 founding institutional members; its core activity is reviewing project access requests through an independent ethics committee (CESREES) and authorizing them via CNIL before provisioning secure project workspaces. Approved project coordinators, drawn from public-interest researchers, start-ups, and health data controllers, conduct analysis entirely on-platform and may export only anonymised results. Access is free for public-interest projects; French law explicitly prohibits the sale of health data. The platform is supplemented by standardized regulatory starter kits (CNIL, MR 004, MR 007, MR 008), the EMC2 health data warehouse, a national data catalogue, the Citizen Academy for public education, and the Open Library of Health Algorithms.

The business model is non-commercial and predominantly publicly financed, with initial funding of 36 million EUR from the Fund for the Transformation of Public Action (FTAP) and an additional 40 million EUR from the National Health Insurance Expenditure Target (ONDAM), totaling 76 million EUR. Revenue derives from government and public health system budget allocations rather than commercial sales, and the organization implements strategic orientations set by the French State and the Ministry of Solidarity and Health. Headcount is 51-100, headquartered in Paris (9 rue Georges Pitard, 75015), with a recent strategic partnership with Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) covering 51 joint projects and positioning the platform as a model for the European Health Data Space.

Name

Health Data Hub

Legal name

Groupement d'Intérêt Public Plateforme des données de santé

Website

https://health-data-hub.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Health Data Hub (Plateforme des données de santé) is a French public interest group operating a secure national platform that hosts pseudonymised health data from the SNDS for approved public-interest research projects. It serves researchers, health data controllers, and health-technology start-ups under CNIL and CESREES oversight, financed by public budgets rather than commercial revenue.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health Data Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

De-identification, Tokenization & Privacy-Preserving Data Platforms (HLACAIAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) & Sensitive Data Discovery (PHI/PII) (HLACAJAC), Consent, Preference & Data Rights Management (incl. HIPAA/GDPR support) (HLACAIAG), Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) + HIPAA/HITRUST/ISO Readiness (HLACAJAJ), Public Health Data Governance, Privacy & Information Management (HLAJAMAI)

Keywords

• Health data platform
• Clinical data access
• Pseudonymized health data
• Health research infrastructure
• National health data system

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public sector funding: The Health Data Hub is predominantly publicly financed. Initial funding of 36 million euros for four years came from the Fund for the Transformation of Public Action (FTAP), with an additional 40 million euros from the National Health Insurance Expenditure Target (ONDAM). Operating as a public interest group (GIP), revenue comes from government and public health system budget allocations rather than commercial sales.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Health Data Hub operates a secure cloud-based technological platform that hosts pseudonymised copies of France's National Health Data System (SNDS), providing approved researchers, public institutions, and private actors with isolated project workspaces to analyze health data for public-interest research. The platform is governed by an independent ethics committee (CESREES) and the CNIL data protection authority, with security architecture including Hardware Security Module (HSM)-generated encryption keys, multi-factor authentication, and daily log sealing.

Product overview

The Health Data Hub (Plateforme des données de santé) is a public structure established by French law in 2019, operating as a public interest group. It functions as a unified, transparent, and secure platform for accessing pseudonymized health data to improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes. The core platform is supplemented by specialized tools including regulatory compliance starter kits (CNIL, MR 004, MR 007, MR 008) for research authorization, the EMC2 health data warehouse for data storage, a data catalogue for dataset discovery, the CESREES committee for project evaluation, and citizen education resources through the académie citoyenne. The platform hosts over 12,000 research projects, has accompanied 230+ projects, and involves 56 founding members. Recent developments include strategic partnerships with AP-HP and migration to sovereign cloud infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Plateforme des données de santé (Health Data Hub)
• Catalogue de données (Data Catalogue)
• Entrepôt EMC2

Quantifiable outcome

• Breast cancer early detection reduces mortality by 21%, and AI could further improve screening by reducing false positives and false negatives
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026The Health Data Hub and AP-HP signed a strategic partnership on 1 June 2026 around a shared roadmap for research, innovation, and healthcare improvement through health data. The collaboration includes 51 joint projects and covers national data sharing, sovereign AI tool development, and mutual infrastructure scaling. Key shared initiatives include the Banque Nationale de Données Maladies Rares (BNDMR), the ACCES project (laureate of the EDS call for projects), PARTAGES, French_HealthData_EU (co-financed by the European Commission), Orchidée, QUANTUM, and SHAIPED. The partnership serves as a model for preparing France's participation in the European Health Data Space (EEDS).
• ScalewaycoreTechnology or IntegrationScaleway has been selected as the new cloud hosting provider for the Health Data Hub's technological platform as part of its migration to sovereign cloud infrastructure. This represents a strategic shift from the previous Microsoft data centre arrangement in the Netherlands to a French-based sovereign cloud provider, aligning with national data sovereignty objectives.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Findata: Finland's Health and Social Data Permit Authority, operating as a national one-stop-shop for secondary use of health and social data. Findata is the most directly comparable European national health data access body, with a similar mandate to streamline approvals and grant researchers access to pseudonymised registers.
• NHS England (Data and Analytics): The UK's NHS manages national patient datasets and provides controlled researcher access through mechanisms such as the NHS Digital Data Access Request Service. Highly comparable as a national-level public platform granting vetted researchers access to pseudonymised population-scale health data under formal governance.
• Health Data Research UK (HDR UK): UK-based institute coordinating access to the country's health datasets for research, working alongside NHS bodies to enable trustworthy data use. Comparable in mission and public-interest governance model, though HDR UK is more federation-oriented and less of a single integrated platform.
• Medizininformatik-Initiative (MII): German federally funded initiative linking university hospital data integration centres to make routine care data usable for research. Directly comparable as a national, publicly-funded effort to consolidate hospital and clinical data behind a federated governance framework for research access.
• Genomics England: UK public body operating a secure research environment for genomics and clinical data, with strict access controls and participant consent frameworks. Comparable as a state-backed platform providing approved researchers secure access to large-scale, sensitive health data for public-interest projects.

Emerging players

• TriNetX: Global health research network that enables researchers to query federated clinical datasets from hospitals and to run studies across sites. Partially overlapping with HDH — both serve researchers seeking secondary-use clinical data — but TriNetX operates commercially and globally rather than under a single national mandate.
• Datavant: US health data connectivity company focused on de-identification, tokenisation, and privacy-preserving linkage of patient data. Comparable in the privacy-preserving data infrastructure layer that underpins the Health Data Hub's pseudonymisation stack, though Datavant operates commercially and primarily in the US market.

Regional players

• Owkin: French health-AI company applying federated learning on hospital data to build diagnostic and prognostic models. Relevant as a France-based health data user that interacts with the Health Data Hub ecosystem and competes for the same research/AI talent pool, though Owkin is a private commercial platform rather than a public utility.
• Cegedim Health Data: French health data subsidiary of Cegedim operating real-world evidence panels of physicians and patients for epidemiological research. Comparable as a France-based health data provider serving research use cases, but operates commercially on proprietary panel data rather than the universal SNDS coverage.

Broad incumbents

• IQVIA: Global clinical and real-world data analytics provider serving pharma, providers, and regulators. Comparable as a large-scale health data platform serving research customers, though IQVIA is a broad incumbent with commercial pharma clients rather than a public-interest data access body.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/healthdatahub
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/health-data-hub

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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