Life Sciences & Health
—9 april 2026
April 9, 2026
3 minutes
New insights help healthcare regions to work data-driven
To improve the organization and financing of prevention in the healthcare and welfare sector, regions need to collaborate more closely based on shared insights. Invest-NL translates lessons from practice into a practical framework for regional data infrastructures. This provides regions with greater guidance to share data responsibly, organize collaboration, and make prevention more fundable. The project was also supported by the European Union through the InvestEU Advisory Hub.
Why sector-spanning data is needed
Invest-NL works on making prevention more financing-friendly by focusing on results-based financing: steering towards health and outcomes rather than paying for treatment. To enable this, reliable, sector-spanning data is needed. Without valid data, there is no insight to make agreements about results and reimbursement.
Increasingly, regions want to use broad, sector-spanning data to better steer on care and well-being, for example to reduce health inequalities or improve collaboration. The effects of prevention often extend across both the healthcare and social sectors, making it necessary to combine these data to gain a good understanding of what works. At the same time, setting up a regional data infrastructure raises many questions: is it legally and privacy-wise permitted, how complex is it, and what does it require from organizations?
From insight to application
Precisely because this development is occurring in multiple regions and there is a need for more clarity and actionable perspectives, there was demand for practical insights into what is indeed possible. Therefore, Invest-NL supported the RIGA-program, in which parties work on an integrated regional health model supported by data. In this project, legal, organizational, and governance issues were examined and developed in practice.
The lessons from the RIGA process have been translated into conditions that are crucial for realizing regional data infrastructures. By making these issues concrete and bundling them into practical lessons and advice, Invest-NL helps regions lay the foundation for data-driven collaboration. This subsequently provides the opportunity to use this data not only for governance and innovation to support regional plans but also for innovative financing such as results-based financing.
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Making prevention more financially feasible
The approach builds on practical experience from the GERDA initiative and previous insights from a study by Invest-NL. The insights from this project are relevant for regions, healthcare organizations, and financiers who want to focus on prevention. Transitions not only require capital but also the right infrastructure around them. By translating lessons from practice into an applicable approach, Invest-NL aims to contribute to this infrastructure.
This project was supported by the European Union via the InvestEU Advisory Hub.
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Louise Blankensteijn
business development manager
