SHAPES Secure Cloud Platform for HealthCare Solutions and Services

Abstract

The SHAPES project is an ambitious endeavour that gathers stakeholders from across Europe to create, deploy and pilot at large-scale a EU-standardised open platform incorporating and integrating a broad range of solutions, including technological, organisational, clinical, educational and societal, to enable the ageing population of Europe to remain healthy, active and productive, as well as to maintain a high quality of life and sense of wellbeing for the longest time possible. Not only each digital solution will be ethical, legal and appropriate for users, but also the results will align with the full and ethically responsible end-to-end exploitation of the new functionalities empowered by the secure cloud platform. Relevant EU and national legal or regulatory frames, ethical principles and fundamental rights will be considered, not only to guarantee due alignment with the development and use of the secure cloud platform but also to determine how to contribute to the reinforcement of the legal and policy frames to strengthen the deployment of large-scale cyber-secure digital solutions and the sustainability of the digital transformation of health and care delivery in Europe. This work in progress paper presents the project’s findings so far with regard to privacy and cybersecurity issues of the SHAPES secure cloud platform.