IHE-Europe Experience Days 2025

 

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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:

          

 

For any questions please contact us:

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
10:00

A Regional Approach to Health Data Exchange: The Azores Interoperability Project

 
Paulo Bras, CIO at Divino Espírito Santo Hospital in Ponta Delgada, Portugal
10:30

 

IHE and HL7 support for EHDS

IHE FHIR© based Profile development to support EHDS with

  • Steven NicholsSenior Director of Interoperablity at GE HealthCare
  • Kevin O'DonnellSr. R&D Mgr at Canon Medical Research USA

EURIDICE specifications for for the EHDS with

  • Giorgio Cangioli, Technical Lead at HL7 Europe
  • Andreas KlinglerHead of Interoperability at Siemens Healthineers and IHE-Europe deputy vendor Co-Chair
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00

 

Initiatives around AI

AIGI group in AI plugathon with 

  • Marc KämmererRadiologist 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 HafezaDirector of Terminology Services and Operations, Health Data Standards for LOINC and UCUM, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
and a panel with
  • Austria: Nina Svec, e-Health Standards Engineer at ELGA GmbH
  • Germany: Sophie Klopfenstein, Medical doctor experienced in eHealth, research fellow at Charité
  • Netherlands: Sylvia van Laar, policy officer semantic interoperability at the department of health informatics, ministry of health, welfare and Sport in NL
  • Estonia: Rutt LindstromData management analyst Health and Welfare Information Systems Center
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: Laia Pons, Director of Health’s Technologies and Information (CTTI) and Marti PamiesInteroperability Architect at Vico Open Modelling SL
  • 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

Collaborative discussion with IHE Catalyst and HIMSS Europe with

  • Christina CaraballoVice President, Informatics at HIMSS and
  • Alexander Berler, Strategic Business Development Director at IHE Catalyst AISBL
17:00

IHE International

Aaron Goldmuntz, IHE International Managing Director

17:15

The IHE MultiCountry Working Group (MCWG) on Imaging

Adoption of MCWG recommendations for ehealth national imaging and impact on EHDS

Charles Parisot, MCWG Coordinator

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: European Commission
Fulvia RaffaelliHead of 'Digital Health' unit at European Commission
9:30

 

 

High level EU Projects session around EHDS

How implementation guidelines will help us toward successful cross-border exchange?

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

ePrescription and eDispensation, Imaging, EHR systems Requirement and Certificatin

  • Rutt Lindstöm, Data management analyst Health and Welfare Information Systems Center,
  • Esther Peelen, Sr Advisor International at NICTIZ,
  • Vanja Pajic, Senior Interoperability Expert
  • Dr Haralampos Karanikas, Medical Informatics and eHealth systems Senior Expert, (Partner IDIKA GR)

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

  • Verena Thaler, Manager Digital Health - Data Governance & Digital Regulation at MedTech Europe
10:40

Examples from EU Projects

part 1

What are the projects supporting the EHDS primary use? 

  • Zoltan Lantos, Potential and MyHealth@MyHands coordinator
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30

Examples from EU Projects

part 2

What are the projects supporting the EHDS primary use? 

  • Giorgio Cangioli, xShare representative
  • Henrique Martins i2x coordinator
11:50

National Roadmaps toward EHDS

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

  • Austria: Patrick Rasztovics, Legal Adviser at the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection
  • Germany: Kira ToennissenAdvisor at the Federal Ministry of Health (Germany) | Interoperability & Cybersecurity
  • Norway: Morten BakkenSenior Advisor,  Standardization department in the Norwegian Directorate of Health
  • Slovenia: Lucija Tepej Jocic, National Institute of Public Health (Slovenia) |
    eHealth team leader 
12:35

 

 

 

How to make Primary Care data available for EHDS Secondary use

Panel Moderation: Alexander Degelsegger-Márquez, Austrian Public Health Institute

  • European Commission: Fulvia RaffaelliHead of 'Digital Health' unit at European Commission
  • TEHDAS 2: Lorenz Dolanski-Aghamanoukjan, Austrian Public Health Institute
  • Belgium Health Data Agency: Inge Franki, EU case manager at the Belgian Health Data Agency
  • Community of practice: Fidelia CasciniChair Steering Board@EHDS2 at the European Commission
  • Quantum Project: Enrique Bernal DelgadoSenior data scientist in Health Services and Policy Research at Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS)
  • IDERHA Project: Marcel Klötgen, Group Manager "Health Information Exchange", Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Enigineering
  • IHE Quality Research and Public Health domain: Lori Fourquet, Consultant and member of IHE
13:15

Experience Day Closing Speech

13:20 Lunch
14:00

Testing Floor Tour

 

 

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