ASHA is a backronym for “Använda Standardiserade Hälsodata som Accelerator”, which also happens to mean “Health” in Swahili.

ASHA is a VINNOVA sytems demonstrator that aims to leverage open standards for electronic health records (openEHR) to build interoperable health data spaces for primary and secondary use, to increase use of health data for accelerated innovation and development.

The AIDA Data Hub contribution to ASHA is to provide health data spaces for secondary use on its data science platform, co-located with a Bigpicture Federated node and a data collaboration platform for EUCAIM use cases, close to national and European high-performance compute systems like Arrhenius.

One such health data space will be used by the ASHA subproject PULMO to combine and analyse genetic, microbiome and epigenetic data from SciLifeLab facilities, with health records exported for research from healthcare, to produce AI based diagnostics tools for complex multi-systemic diseases like long covid, tuberculosis and other pulmonary conditions.

Contacts

	Joel Hedlund Head of AIDA Data Hub Management, Policy support, System design support, Data sharing, Economy
	Pontus Freyhult IT Architect System design support, Policy support, Management, System development
	Claes Lundström Platform Scientific Director Management