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IHE-Europe Experience Days 2025

 

 

 

Make sure to save the date for the Experience Days 2025, taking place during the IHE-Europe Connectathon Week in Vienna, Austria, 24-25 June, under the theme:

 "Artificial Intelligence and EHDS Deployment for a Health Data Empowered Era".

Please note that the IHE-Europe Experience Days will take place on Tuesday, the 24th (all day) and Wednesday, the 25th (morning only).

The IHE-Europe Experience Days are sponsored by:

This program is currently in its preliminary stages and subject to further refinement:

Experience Day 1: 24 June 2025
Time Topic Speaker
8:30 Welcome Coffee
9:00
Welcome Speech
Janos Vincze, IHE-Europe vendor co-chair, Jan Hulek, IHE-Europe user co-chair
9:30
Keynote Speech: Austria
Meinhild Hausreither, Director General, Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection
10:15

 

EHDS FHIR©- based Profile Development
  • Organisation in Europe to support EHDS profiles with
Giorgio Cangioli, Technical Lead at HL7 Europe and

Andreas Klingler, Head of Interoperability at Siemens Healthineers and IHE-Europe deputy vendor Co-Chair

 

  • IHE FHIR© based Profile development to support EHDS with

Steven Nichols, Senior Director of Interoperablity at GE HealthCare and

Kevin O'Donnell, Sr. R&D Mgr at Canon Medical Research USA
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30

 

Initiatives around AI
  • AIGI group in AI plugathon with Marc Kämmerer, Radiologist and head of innovation management at VISUS Health IT; coordinator of the IHE-Europe Taskforce AIGI

 

  • Evalutation of AI algorythm in health with Sandie Cabon, TEF health (Testing and Environment Facilities) 
13:00 Lunch
14:00

 

Keynote Speech: Digital Pathology across borders

How the Healthacross initiative is trying to set a new milestone in the field of European territorial cooperation with

Florian Lochner, EU Project Manager @Initiative Healthacross
14:20

 

Terminology as the backbone of the EHDS: Global standards in action

 
Eza Hafeza, Director of Terminology Services and Operations, Health Data Standards for LOINC and UCUM, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
and
Nina Svec, e-Health Standards Engineer at ELGA GmbH
15:10

 

National implementation on Laboratory

Examples in European Countries and discussions with

  • Switzerland: Stéphane Spahni, IT Architect at the University Hospital of Geneva
  • Catalonia Region: Josep M. Picas, Former President of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers with the partnership  of the Catalan Health Service
  • France: Thierry Dart, Director of Interoperability at the French Digital Health Agency (ANS)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30

Advancing EHDS with the help of the Testing Continuum and Industry Collaboration

Collaborative discussion with IHE Catalyst, Industry X-Net - EHDS Recommendation Group and HIMSS Europe
17:30

End of the day

 

Experience Day 2: 25 June 2025 (morning only)
Time Topic Speaker
8:30 Welcome Coffee
9:00
Keynote Speech
Overview of the EHDS regulation
9:30

 

 

High level EU Projects session around EHDS
  • How implementation guidelines will help us toward successful cross-border exchange?

with Andreas Neocleous, Project Manager at National eHealth Authority - Cyprus and Xt-EHR coordinator

  • ePrescription and eDispensation, Imaging, EHR systems Requirement and Certificatin

with Esther Peelen Sr Advisor International at NICTIZ, Vanja Pajic Senior Interoperability Expert and Dr Haralampos Karanikas Assistant Professor Medical Informatics and eHealth systems University of Thessaly

  • Industry X-Net - EHDS Recommendation group comments on the EHDS regulation

with Verena Thaler Manager Digital Health - Data Governance & Digital Regulation at MedTech Europe
10:30

Examples from EU Projects

What are the projects supporting the EHDS primary use? 

With Zoltan Lantos MyHealth@MyHands coordinator, Giorgio Cangioli xShare representative and Henrique Martins i2x coordinator
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30

National Roadmaps toward EHDS

What is the impact of  the EHDS for the Member States?

  • Austria - Michael Furmann, Policy Advisor, Office of Federal Minister Johannes Rauch at the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection (Austria)
  • Germany - Kira Toennissen, Advisor at the Federal Ministry of Health (Germany) | Interoperability & Cybersecurity
  • Norway - Marianne Bartvedt van Os, Senior Advisor Directorate of Health (Norway) | International relations e-health
  • Slovenia - Lucija Tepej Jocic, National Institute of Public Health (Slovenia) |
    eHealth team leader 
11:30

How to make Primary Care data available for EHDS Secondary use

TBC
12:45

Experience Day Closing Speech
13:00 Lunch
13:30

Testing Floor Tour

 

REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN !

We are excited to invite you to join us for an informative and engaging experience. Registrations will be opened until the event.

Find the fees below:

Regular fee Early bird fee
(35% discount)		 Included in the fee

 

460 €

300 €

(until 15 April 2025)

 

Access to the IHE-Europe Experience Days, including lunch and coffee breaks. 
30 €   This ticket include a City tour and a networking dinner on the Tuesday 24th evening

If you are part of one of the following categories, reach out to experiencedays@ihe-europe.net to know more about your discount:

  • IHE-Europe Steering Committee members
  • Part of a vendor that has registered for testing on the Connectathon floor
  • Participant of another IHE-Europe event during the Connectathon Week
  • Part of a delegation (5 persons)
  • Part of a public hospital or a university

For discount options, please send us an email:

 

Manager Digital Health - Data Governance & Digital Regulation

Want to know more about how IHE-Europe Connectathon can help your eHealth programme or project?

Please contact IHE-Catalyst by email