GDC Minutes 2025-04-02

Welcome

• Participants

• Jürgen Brandstätter
• Peter MacIsaac
• Didi Davis
• John Moehrke
• Yasunari Shiokawa
• Hagan Horn
• Stephane Spahni

• Agenda Approval

• Approved

Reconstitution

• New co-chair Peter MacIsaac

• Peter introduces himself
• Hagan introduces herself

• Work-programme 2025

• National Deployment Committee Reports

• Required task! Approved for 2025

• Special Presentations

• Approved for 2025
• Approved that the Special Presentations are published somewhere in IHE Int webspace (Wiki / Confluence)

• Other work

• Volume 4 of the Technical Framework

• Approved for 2025
• European situation: HL7 / IHE Europe will create "European IHE profiles" for the EHDS
• Proposal for Introduction of "realms" for regions is in discussion (e.g., US, Europe, ...)

• Governance for that needs still to be created

• Next step: Educational session by John Moehrke to explain how Volume 4 should be used as a new starting point for discussion

• Topics for next committee call (May 2025):

• Invite Aaron
• Review Deployment Committee Report (if present)
• Special Presentation "Sequoia"
• Work on "Wiki or Confluence" for publishing Special Presentations?

• Action item: Jürgen and Peter get introduction into IHE Int Confluence by Chris/Hagan/Aaron until next call

National Deployment Committees

• Board reports and status updates
• Current National/Regional Deployment Committee commitments to provide reports:

• None

• Call for overdue reports based on the above schedule, singling out attendees attending this meeting

• Hagan will invite overdue Deployment Committees

Special Presentation

• None for this call

Future Special Presentations and tentative schedule 2025

• Proposals:

• IHE Catalyst update on IHE Europe Connectathon including implications to DC (Claudio Saccavini)
• General IHE Catalyst Update (Lapo Bertini)
• Netherland's setting up of a National Test and Validation Center (Tie Tjee)
• UK Special Interest Group: Digital Pathology (Robin Breslin, IHE UK)

• Tentative schedule for Special Presentations

• May: "Sequoia update" (Didi Davis)
• Jun: tbd
• Jul: tbd
• Aug: tbd
• Sep: tbd
• Oct: tbd
• Nov: tbd
• Dec: tbd

Open Forum (informal information sharing)

• IHE Europe Connectathon Vienna June 23-27, 2025

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• Connectathon Registrations > 55 systems
• ELGA Projectathon on Austrian specifications on Image Sharing (XCA-I, WIA)
• EHDS Plugathons:

• Patient mediated exchange (EU xShare project, EU MyHealth @ MyHands project)
• Healthcare provider mediated exchange (Europen EHR Exchange Format, EU i2x project)

• OpenEHR Plugathon, AI Plugathon, Energy Plugathon
• High-level cross-sector Interoperability Symposium (Healthcare, Energy, Agriculture, ...)

Other business

• None

Next meeting

• Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 06:00-7:00pm CT (Asia/US friendly time)