On 30 November, the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) organised a Public Consultation in the context of its final Report on the Sector Inquiry into the provision of private healthcare and related insurance services.

The President of Homo Digitalis, Elpida Vamvaka, received an honorary invitation from the Competition Commission and its Chairman, Mr. Ioannis Lianos, to attend this Public Consultation and to make a statement. We thank them warmly for their practical interest in the views of Civil Society!

In our statement we welcomed the initiative of Eur. Commission’s initiative to create the European Health Data Space (“EHDS”) and its intention to provide for common rules and interoperable data standards that will facilitate the exchange of health data when it is in the medical interest of patients.

At the same time, we have not failed to highlight the highly problematic new rules that will completely limit medical privacy and the reasonable expectations of privacy that citizens have when they trust their doctor.

You can read more on the website of the Hellenic Competition Commission here.