Article 6, European electronic health record exchange format, Articles of the European Health Data Space (EHDS), (Proposal_3.5.2022)
1. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, lay down the technical specifications for the priority categories of personal electronic health data referred to in Article 5, setting out the European electronic health record exchange format. The format shall include the following elements:
(a) datasets containing electronic health data and defining structures, such as data fields and data groups for the content representation of clinical content and other parts of the electronic health data;
(b) coding systems and values to be used in datasets containing electronic health data;
(c) technical specifications for the exchange of electronic health data, including its content representation, standards and profiles.
2. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 68(2). Member States shall ensure that where the priority categories of personal electronic health data referred to in Article 5 are provided by a natural person directly or transmitted to a healthcare provider by automatic means in the format referred to in paragraph 1, such data shall be read and accepted by the data recipient.
3. Member States shall ensure that the priority categories of personal electronic health data referred to in Article 5 are issued in the format referred to in paragraph 1 and such data shall be read and accepted by the data recipient.