The Plugathon is an event dedicated to specific innovation contexts.
The 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 Plugathon will take place alongside the IHE-Europe Connectathon WEEK, in Vienna, Austria from 23 to 27 June 2025. The event will be held at the Vienna Allianz Stadion Convention Center.
Participation Fees
Take part in this unique opportunity to innovate and connect within the digital health community.
Registration for one Plugathon: €750
Special rate for participation in two Plugathons: €1100
Choose the format that best fits your goals and maximize your experience.
The 2025 IHE-Europe Connectathon Week edition will offer 3 open Plugathons
- Track 1: The xShare Yellow Button and the xShare Industry Label
- Track 2: European MyHealth@MyHands project
Plugathon for EHDS – Patient-mediated health information exchange
Wednesday 25 - Friday 27
Track 1: The xShare Yellow Button and the xShare Industry Label
Description: The goal is to test and validate the xShare Yellow-Button, developed by the EU project "xShare", which support Download/Upload and One-time Share of priority data categories in the European Health Data Space (EHDS):
- Patient Summary
- Laboratory Report
- ePrescription/eDispense
- Radiology Report
- Hospital Discharge Summary
Track 2: European MyHealth@MyHands project
Description: The goal is to test and validate the patient-mediated exchange of health information in the newly started EU project MyHealth@MyHands. It will have a focus on ePrescription/eDispense using the EUID Wallet and providing testing and co-creation on the topic.
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Plugathon for EHDS Healthcare Provider
Monday 23 - Wednesday 25
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.
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Plugathon for 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.
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