France's unified health data access platform, government-operated
Health Data Hub is a state-owned data platform consolidating French health records into a single secure access point for researchers, innovators, and public-health stakeholders. The stack—Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python—reflects infrastructure-first engineering priorities, while active hiring across ops, data, and deployment roles signals a shift toward operational maturity and scale. Current focus is industrializing deployments and reducing data-access latency, suggesting the platform is moving from pilot to high-volume production.
Health Data Hub is a public-interest grouping (GIP) established by French law in 2019 to aggregate and provide unified, secure access to the country's health data patrimony. The platform serves as a single gateway for researchers, healthcare innovators, and citizens to interact with health data producers in a regulated, transparent environment. The organization operates across three core functions: project support and ecosystem coordination, platform engineering and operations, and data curation and research enablement. Based in Paris with 51–200 employees, HDH is funded and governed by 56 public and public-health stakeholders and operates under strict security and compliance requirements.
Go, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Apache Spark, Python, and R. Infrastructure is managed via Helm, Terragrunt, and Ansible; access control via Keycloak; data tools include Jupyter and RStudio.
Deployment industrialization, data-access-time reduction, platform architecture redesign, security audit remediation, and governance documentation for the French national health data system (SNDS).
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