Reference to the HDA work in an article in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

Please find the publication in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology of February 2023, volume 11, issue 2, pages 70-72. In this comment, an overview of the key recommendations of the work in the EUDF Strategic Forum on Data Registries is given with some additional thoughts on existing barriers and opportunities. Diabetes registries and high-quality diabetes care - ScienceDirect

The reference to Belgium and the BEDF in the article:
"A recent initiative from the national equivalent of the EUDF (The Belgian Diabetes Forum – BeDF) has been key to promote diabetes as case for the set-up of a generic system of identification of people living with a chronic disease and linking these data to outcomes and informing health authorities allowing them to adapt the healthcare system if needed. As such, the Ministry of Health has adopted diabetes as the pilot for registries, in the context of a larger project called Health Data Agency (HDA). In line with the EUDF recommendations, the HDA aspires to encourage population management, scientific research, innovation and policy making to ultimately help improve the health of citizens."