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While international initiatives aim to harmonize rare disease registries, capturing hyperspecialized, multimodal clinical records and ophthalmology-specific imaging within a fully compliant and sustainable infrastructure remains a major operational challenge.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n This study aims to describe the methodological framework, regulatory implementation, and early operational outcomes of FREDD (French Rare Eye Disease Database), a national interoperable health data warehouse dedicated to rare eye diseases, and to analyze its key success factors, technical bottlenecks, and long-term financial sustainability models.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n Developed under the oversight of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Institut national de la sant\u00e9 et de la recherche m\u00e9dicale; INSERM), the warehouse implements a centralized 3-layer architecture encompassing data collection, processing, and research reuse environments. The dataset extends the national minimum rare disease dataset with detailed ophthalmology variables structured through a dynamic electronic case report form, as well as a dedicated collection of ophthalmic images. Interoperability is achieved using international domain ontologies and a custom parsing tool (FREDDEX) designed to automatically prefill clinical data from the existing French national rare disease registry. Centralized monitoring, data curation, and cross-center quality tracking are driven by a dedicated in-house dashboard (FREDDIn [FREDD Insights]), while unstructured retinal images are processed through a standardized pseudonymization and human-verified validation pipeline.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Implementation (Results)<\/jats:title>\n Official regulatory authorization was obtained in April 2024, and active data collection began in March 2025 across 5 pilot expert centers, focusing its initial phase on inherited retinal dystrophies, primarily retinitis pigmentosa. Over a 1-year period, the warehouse successfully integrated clinical data from 1649 patients\u2014representing 20.3% of all retinitis pigmentosa cases registered nationally\u2014and accumulated more than 10,000 ophthalmic images. The centralized dashboard maintained an overall data inconsistency rate of approximately 7%, chiefly reflecting logical dependencies. Among the included patients, 36.7% (605\/1649) patients had associated imaging data, with fundus photography being the most widely available modality (768\/1649, 46.6%).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n The implementation of this database demonstrates that a highly specialized, multimodal health data warehouse can be successfully deployed in a highly regulated environment when regulatory anticipation, governance formalization, and technical flexibility are addressed in parallel. While initial development was supported by institutional grants, long-term sustainability will require a structured cost-recovery model. 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