XXII Health Data Security and Protection Forum

Data Security and Protection Forum to create a meeting place for all professionals in the healthcare sector (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, researchers, students and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professionals, managers, directors, etc.), data protection and information security authorities, as well as the main leaders in the technology sector, to share experiences and knowledge in order to promote the secure use of ICTs that contribute to healthcare. ), data protection and information security authorities, as well as the main leaders in the technology sector, in order to share experiences and knowledge in order to promote the safe use of ICTs that contribute to quality, efficient health care and especially respectful of citizens' rights.

The most important tool that the Health Data Security and Protection Forum has to fulfill this objective is its annual meeting, which in 2025 will reach its 22nd edition and will be held on February 19 and 20 in Santander.

The Forum is, therefore, a mature and fully consolidated initiative that has become an unmissable annual event for all those people and public and private organizations in the healthcare sector in whose hands rests the preservation of patient privacy as an element of quality in healthcare services and in research and management tasks.

Under the slogan “Impact and Risks of Health Data Spaces”, the Forum will deal with one of the burning challenges in the field of data protection and security with the aim of improving people's access to and control over their personal electronic health data, while at the same time permitting the reuse of certain data for purposes of public interest, policy support and scientific research.

The official inauguration of the Forum will be carried out by the Regional Minister of Health of Cantabria, the President of the SEIS and the Coordinator of the program of the 22nd edition of the Forum on Security and Protection of Health Data.

After the opening session, the first session of the Forum will be dedicated to the data protection authorities, for which reason there will be representatives of the authorities of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, the Basque Data Protection Agency, the Catalan Data Protection Authority and the Council for Transparency and Data Protection of Andalusia.

Thus, once again, the data protection authorities show their support to this initiative of the SEIS, which we would like to thank, as it is fundamental for the achievement of the objectives of the Health Data Protection and Security Forum.

The closing ceremony of the Forum will serve to share the main issues and conclusions of the Forum and will be carried out by the Secretary General for Digital Health of the Ministry of Health, the Manager of the Cantabrian Health Service and the General Coordinator of the 22nd edition of the Forum on Security and Protection of Healthcare Data.

It should also be noted that prior to the Forum there will be two working sessions of the Technical Committee on Health Information Security (CTSIS), which was set up in 2013 at the initiative of the SEIS. The CTSIS is made up of the heads of security and data protection delegates of all the regional health services and its main objectives, among others, are to share experiences, concerns and solutions, as well as to standardize criteria in the field of security and data protection in the healthcare sector.