EduCom Minutes 2025-12-18

Welcome

• Participants

Aaron Goldmuntz, Sofia Franconi, Eva Sabajova, Werner Henschelchen, Stefan Sauermann

• Meeting Link - https://meet.google.com/dsj-oasx-cpp

• Agenda is approved?

Status updates

• Exam status update

• Werner reports: In 2025 the number of exams decreased by 50%. In 2024 100 exams took place, in 2025 around 50.
• The exam was last revised 2 years ago.
• If there are further questions please feel free to contact Werner Henschelchen.

• Reports from attendants

• Sofia took the exam two years ago.
• Werner mentions that examinees feel that the exam is "fair". The pass rate is 80%.
• Who takes the exam: EHR providers, consulters, sometimes institutions send larger groups of attendants. This is not very steady. Exams sometimes concentrate around Connectathons.

• We may think strategically about groups that we want to motivate to take the course and the exam.
• There are opportunities from many current initiatives, also in cooperation with others e.g. HL7, EU EHDS, ...

Exam and Syllabus

• The method to develop the exam is to be updated, using Generative AI

• Werner provided a procedure using AI, and a more agile review process
• This method also enables to provide questions to help trainees to prepare for exams

• The Syllabus needs updates

• Reference to Antilope Project, FTP Site was replaced by Google drive, ...

• Discussion, next steps

• The goal is to use the planned IHE Education Committee calls to prepare a presentation of the results at the European Conectathon in Brussels in March 2026.
• Werner reports that so far not much interest was in the USA
• Steps to further enlarge the audience, have mor trainees and IHE Certified Professionals

Any other business

none

Next call

20th January 2026, 3.30pm CET (Brussels time) IHE Education Committee