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
Jürgen Brandstätter, Senior Adviser, Federal Ministry of Work, 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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