RSO South Limburg has signed a contract with Open Line Vitaly, Better, and Enovation for the development of the regional data ecosystem. The contract marks a key milestone following the approval of funding under the IZA transformation plan.
The collaborating parties will deliver the technical infrastructure needed to exchange health data among the involved healthcare organisations. The regional data ecosystem will help healthcare providers share health data securely and in a uniform manner.
RSO South Limburg is one of the regional cooperation organisations (RSOs) in the Netherlands, each working in its own region to improve data availability in healthcare.
Healthcare providers in South Limburg work with different systems, which means that information is not always immediately available to everyone involved in a care pathway. General practitioners often need to check whether a report is already accessible, and community nurses do not always see which consultations have been scheduled. Citizens also frequently must repeat their story. The regional data ecosystem will make health data more accessible, enabling healthcare providers to quickly see what information is already available and to align care pathways more easily across organisations.
The collaborating parties are setting up the technical facilities needed to enable data sharing between systems in the region. “Our shared goal is to ensure that health data becomes available and reusable without requiring extra steps in daily care processes,” says José Strijbos, Chief Healthcare Officer, on behalf of Open Line Vitaly and Enovation.
“A regional ecosystem based on a digital health platform is a critical foundation for truly person-centred care, and Advance Care Planning is a powerful example of why this matters,” said Anže Droljc, Business Development Director at Better. “ACP is about understanding what matters most to people and ensuring those wishes are visible and respected across every care setting. Without structured and standardised clinical data that can be updated in real time and accessed by all regional stakeholders, those conversations risk staying local, duplicated, or being lost entirely. By setting up a regional data platform and an ACP solution that runs on it across South Limburg, we are helping create the conditions for ACP to move from good intentions to consistent, coordinated care.”
“With the signing of this contract, we as a region can truly get to work,” says Wim Eurlings, CEO of RSO South Limburg. “We are working closely with all involved healthcare organisations and will develop the IZA transformation plan.” The coming period will be fully dedicated to implementation and realisation.
