Padraic Ward is Head of Pharma International Roche. Roche is one of the
largest biotech company and leading
private investor in health research in the world. He was speaking with Euractiv’s Digital Editor Luca Bertuzzi,
The development of the European Health Data Space is one of the priorities of the European Commission. What is the state of play?
I feel very optimistic about the discussions on how we will create a really strong base in Europe for healthcare data. I am very much encouraged by what we see coming from the European Commission. In particular, the move towards a European health data space is a very important one for several reasons.