Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise - Europe

EU Legislative Interests

- Identification of IHE profiles in accordance the with Article 13 and Annex II (based on the WTO standardisation principles) of Regulation (EU) No. 1025 /2012 (Validation in July 2015) - The Refined Health European Interoperability Framework (reEIF) endorsed by the Health Network - Digital agenda (DAE) and DSM - CEF: Connecting Facility for Europe - European Health Data Space (EHDS) - Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF)

Communication Activities

- Yearly IHE-Europe Connectathon and related events: https://connectathon.ihe-europe.net - Position paper on EHDS: https://www.ihe-europe.net/sites/default/files/2023-12/IHE-Europe%20statement%20on%20the%20proposal%20for%20a%20European%20Health%20Data%20Space%20%28EHDS%29_0.pdf Contribution to EU projects: -xShare: Everyone can share their health data in European EHRxF with a click-of-a-button - XpanDH: Expanding Digital Health through a pan-European EHRxF-based Ecosystem, -UNICOM: Upscalling the global univocal identification of medicines -X-eHealth: Exchanging Electronic Health Records in a common Framework -EURO-CAS: Conformity Assessement Scheme for Europe in order to establish an European scheme aligned with the ReEIF and international scheme such as IHE CAS -eStandards: eHealth standards and Profiles in Action for Europe and beyond -Contribution to the extension of the ReEIF (Refined eHealth Interoperability Framework with twi new use cases and several realization scenarios -Report on cost-effectiveness of standards tools -epSOS: the project demonstrated the cross border exchange of medical data (Patient Summary and ePrescription) among European countries. -EXPAND: as a “continuation of the epSOS project” to the next step which is to launch of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). -Trillium Bridge:supported the extension of the cross border European medical exchanges (epSOS) to US. The testing strategy that was developed was aligned to the epsom strategy. - HITCH:Health care Interoperability Testing and Conformance harmonisation project -Antilope: supported the dissemination and adoption of the eEIF and built a refined eEIF with use cases and a selection of a set of 27 profiles. Quality management on interoperability testing, test methods were considered as well as a framework for supporting the development of a Conformity Assessment Scheme regarding HITCH recommendations.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Member of IHE International: www.IHE.net Member of ECHAlliance: https://echalliance.com/ Member of IHE Catalyst: https://ihe-catalyst.net/

Organisation Members

Members are IHE National Deployment Committees, European/national associations or European national institutions and companies see: http://www.ihe-europe.net/members

Additional Information

IHE-Europe entered into a new contract for organising the IHE-Europe Connectathon and its related testing activities for which IHE-Europe is receiving a fixed amount. Also, several projects have been concluded without continuation. IHE-Europe is currently involved in the xShare project. It has received payment in 2025. No remaining contributors go over the limit of 10% of the budget.