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 2025 has taken place alongside the IHE-Europe Connectathon WEEK, in Vienna, Austria from 23 to 27 June 2025.

The 2025 IHE-Europe Connectathon Week edition has offered 3 open Plugathons

Plugathon for EHDS -Patient

- Track 1: The xShare Yellow Button and the xShare Industry Label

- Track 2: European MyHealth@MyHands project

Plugathon for EHDS - HCP

Plugathon for openEHR

Introducing the Plugathons WEBINARS

for EHDS: Hands-On Interoperability for the European Health Data Space

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for openEHR: Introducing the Plugathon for openEHR:

An Educational Journey to Test and Connect Health Data Across Europe

recording / slides

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.

Download the Plugathon description

Plugathon for EHDS Healthcare Provider

Monday 23 - Wednesday 25

Description: This Plugathon 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.

This Plugathon also hosts the European i2x project as an educational and co-creation platform.

Download the Plugathon description

Plugathon openEHR – Exploring openEHR Integration within IHE Profiles and further collaboration opportunities

Monday 23 - Tuesday 24

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. It will also explore topics such as conformance testing and future ventures between IHE and openEHR.

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 and IHE offers.

• 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 and wider offers..

• 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.

Plugathon Fees

event	Regular fee	Discounted fee
EHDS Patient	€750	if you are a participant from European projects xShare or myHealth@myHands please contact us
EHDS HCP	€750	if you are a participant from European project i2X please contact us
Both Plugathons (Monday 23 - Friday 27)	€1100	for participants from i2X, xShare, and myHealth@myHands please contact us
OpenEHR	€100	----

Plugathon + IHE-Europe Experience Days: Bundle Discount Available:

Interested in joining both a Plugathon and the IHE-Europe Experience Days? A reduced fee is available—just reach out to us!

Important Notes: If you're planning to combine the EHDS HCP Plugathon or both Plugathons with the Experience Days, please contact us directly. As these events run simultaneously and participation is per person, we'll evaluate each case individually to ensure the best possible experience.

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