This deliverable (D5.1) is a technical document that has the purpose of presenting the design and the implementation of the MES-CoBraD platform components intended for the data management. The document starts with an analysis of the data management in the healthcare and medical research landscape, then continues with a comparison among several already available IT solutions that could cover the requirements necessary for the purposes of the MES-CoBraD project. The platform components discussed in this document are: Edge module Anonymisation module Data collection component Data Lake Data harmonisation component For each of the up-mentioned tools, the entire design process is described across the document, starting from the requirements' analysis, the planned API specifications and even the intended UI mock-ups. Once described in detail the desired design, the technological implementation is analysed along with the integration among the components. Finally, a plan for the User acceptance tests for each component is presented.