The IHE-Europe Plugathon offers a unique educational and testing opportunity by leveraging IHE experiences from the well-established IHE-Europe Connectathon. This event provides an opportunity to learn & share experiences and a platform for a specific community to innovate, including on-the-fly connections, with the APIs of health IT product solutions in a standardized way. It's the way to propel your projects forward!
The IHE-Europe Plugathon will take place alongside the IHE-Europe Connectathon WEEK, in Vienna, Austria from 23 to 26 June 2025. The event will be held at the Vienna Allianz Stadion Convention Center.
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TRACK DEVICES
Gemini SDPi Gazelle Integration & Testing Workshop
Description: Building on the success of the IHE North America Connectathon in Toronto early February 2025, this workshop will continue to advance Gazelle-based connectathon testing for the Gemini SDPi Device Interoperability profiles, laying the foundation for IHE Connectathon testing later in 2025 and 2026.
The focus of this 5-day effort will be to:
a) Update the Gazelle Master Model for support of the three core SDPi profiles (SDPi-Plug-and-trust, SDPi-Reporting & SDPi-Alerting);
b) Integrate an SDC protocol test tool into Gazelle using the EVSClient; and
c) craft a set of test cases that cover these three profiles and leverage the work done in the preceding 20 IHE Gemini Plugathon events!
Who should attend: Individuals who are part of organizations that are developing SDC/SDPi conformant medical devices and plan on participating in future IHE connectathons. This includes Gazelle configuration managers, system testing / conformity assessment experts, SDC, IHE DEV/PCD and FHIR interface developers, and tool smiths!
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TRACK OpenEHR
OpenEHR
Description: A two-day track dedicated to exploring the role of openEHR as a complementary standard in the IHE ecosystem. This activity will provide a space to evaluate how openEHR-based systems can support and extend their capabilities via selected IHE Profiles, particularly in the context of structured health data access, persistence, and secondary data use.
Participants will:
• Examine selected projects leveraging openEHR for structured clinical data management.
• Participate in interactive technical sessions aimed at validating openEHR-based solutions against IHE interoperability frameworks.
• Explore concrete use-cases where openEHR can enhance or integrate with profiles.
• Discuss pathways for potential updates or supplements to IHE profiles that include openEHR-based options for data persistence and retrieval.
Who should attend:
• Companies and organizations implementing or evaluating openEHR-based platforms.
• Vendors and developers working on IHE-compliant solutions interested in exploring openEHR integration.
• National and regional health data infrastructure teams preparing for broader adoption of open, semantically rich clinical repositories.
Intended output:
• Shared understanding of how openEHR can complement selected IHE profiles.
• Expertise exchange across implementers and national initiatives using openEHR.
• Documented use-cases and preliminary mapping of integration points between IHE profiles and openEHR standards, identifying opportunities and gaps for future profile evolution.
Track will be facilitated by openEHR and IHE SMEs
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TRACK EHDS 1
EHDS-Patient track
Description: The goal is to test and validate the patient-mediated exchange of health information using mechanisms like the Yellow-Button label, developed by the EU project "xShare", which support transparency, consent and control for the patient over their health data, as designed in the European Health Data Space (EHDS):
- Patient Summary
- Laboratory Report
- Radiology Report
- Hospital Discharge Summary
As a second aspect the newly started EU project MyHealth@MyHands will have a focus on ePrescription/eDispense using the EUID Wallet, providing testing and co-creation on the topic.
Participants Will:
- Get valuable inputs during the educational part of the track, covering the general aspects of patient-mediated health information exchange, xShare specifications, MyHealth@MyHands EUID Wallet architecture and best practices for patient-mediated health data exchange.
- Test xShare / Yellow-Button label workflows
- Conducting technical tests for Yellow-Button content specifications and perform functional tests against Yellow-Button requirements.
- Evaluate patient-mediated sharing of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) data category priorities.
- Explore user experience and workflow aspects of the MyHealth@MyHands scenario ePrescription/eDispense utilizing the new EUID Wallet specifications.
Who Should Attend:
- Patient portal vendors and mobile health/wellness app developers.
- National and regional health authorities designing EHDS-compliant patient interfaces.
- Implementers of xShare-related and MyHealth@MyHands related solutions.
Intended Output:
- Becoming familiarized with the base concepts of patient-mediated sharing of health information and the EU projects xShare and MyHealth@MyHands
- Verified technical and functional capabilities of patient-mediated health data sharing.
- Feedback on usability, and interoperability aspects of Yellow-Button and xShare.
- Refined guidance on integrating the European Health Data Space (EHDS) data priority category’s document sharing into national infrastructure.
- Becoming familiarized with the MyHealth@MyHands patient-mediated sharing of health information using the EUID Wallet at the example of ePrescription/eDispense
- Recommendations for evolving EHDS patient-facing services.
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TRACK EHDS 2
EHDS Healthcare Provider track
Description: This track focuses on testing and validating healthcare provider-to-healthcare provider workflows and data exchange mechanisms aligned with the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and cross-border sharing via MyHealth@EU. The track aims to examine the current candidates for the FHIR based specifications of the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) according to the EHDS data category priorities
- Patient Summary
- Laboratory Report
- Radiology Report
- Hospital Discharge Summary
- ePrescription/eDispense
and how those can be shared across systems, with semantic consistency and cross-border interoperability in mind. A particular goal is to assess the readiness of participants for real-world deployment.
Participants Will:
- Get valuable inputs during the educational part of the track, focusing on EEHRxF specifications, and integration strategies for EHDS-compliant clinical data exchange.
- Test their implementations of the FHIR Implementation Guides of the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) according to the EHDS data category priorities
- Learn about and provide feedback on draft EEHRxF specifications, focusing on semantic alignment, FHIR profiles, and content mapping
- Evaluate the use of structured and coded clinical data in real-world clinical scenarios
- Explore opportunities for alignment with national infrastructure and EHDS services such as MyHealth@EU.
Who Should Attend:
- National eHealth teams and digital health authorities involved in EHDS implementation
- EHR vendors and developers integrating FHIR-based exchange formats
- Healthcare providers and IT leads piloting cross-border data sharing use cases
- Standards experts contributing to EEHRxF or EHDS infrastructure projects (like i2x project)
Intended Output:
- Validated implementations of FHIR Implementation Guides for the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF)
- Feedback on EEHRxF draft specifications and identification of improvement areas.
- Shared understanding of best practices for integrating EHDS components into provider systems.
- Enhanced collaboration among Member States, vendors, and implementers preparing for EHDS compliance.
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