Transparency forms the ground to grow trust. This is entailed in the FHIN governance, consisting of following principles.

• The FHIN partners are non-profit entities that have direct healthcare provisioning in their daily operational activity or are secondary non-profit entities that are directly processing data from such healthcare provisioning entities.

• Data always stays 100% within each data partner's control. Not a single bit of data has to leave the data partner's control.

• The FHIN Steering Committee (FSC) consists of 2 representatives of each partner: a healthcare professional and a operations professional. The meets 4 times per year.

• Everybody (academia, pharmaceuticals, researchers, med tech companies...) with a data-driven project in mind can file a project-proposal on the FHIN website (See: Submit a project proposal).

• In line with the data control principle, data partners have the right to accept or decline participation to each submitted project-proposal. A declining partner can use the project results. However, a declining partner cannot claim any credit on the project work such as being a co-author on publications, claiming intellectual property and so on.

• The FHIN consortium started on the July 1 2023. All prior art of the founding partners remains their intellectual property. All foreground intellectual property from the start date onwards is shared property.

• The FHIN consortium works according basic equallity principles.