GDC Minutes 2021-09-01

Welcome

• Participants

• Jürgen Brandstätter
• Vince McCauley
• Pero Grgic
• Dewinder Bhachu
• Yasunari Shiokawa
• Karima Bourquard
• Charles Parisot
• Jiwu Zhang

• Approval of agenda

• Approved

• Permission to record this session

• Granted
• See recording here

National Deployment Committees

• Board reports and status updates

• No reports to review

Global Consortium for eHealth Interoperability Update

• Status (only if time allows)

• Jürgen Brandstätter provides an update on the GCeHI

Special Presentation

• European X-eHealth (Jürgen)

• The European X-eHealth project is a very important strategic project in Europe since 2020 providing the ground work for extending the existing eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure (eHDSI) for cross-border exchange of health information. Currently the eHDSI provides cross-border exchange of Patient Summary and ePrescription/eDispense accross the European member states. X-eHealth shall prepare the addition of the following new health information to eHDSI in the future:

• Hospital Discharge Summary
• Laboratory Result Report
• Radiology Report and Images
• Patient Summary for rare diseases

• This presentation provides an overview on the project, the current status of developments and its implications on standards development

• Presentation given by Jürgen Brandstätter

• See recording here: <link to be inserted>

• Future Presentations and tentative schedule:

• Oct (Asia/US): Australia: National approach to Health IT Standards selection, March slot (Vince)
• Nov (US/EU): Greek National eHealth Information Framework - Projectathon (Charles)
• Dec (EU/Asia): eGabon National HIE with World Bank - Projectathon (Charles)

• 2022 schedule (new)

• Jan (Asia/US): <Topic tbd> (Jiwu Zhang)
• Feb (US/EU): tbd
• Mar (EU/Asia): <Topic tbd> (Yasunari Shiokawa)

Open Forum (informal information sharing)

• Skipped due to time

Other business

• Info: Next IHE Europe Connectathon intended to be in Switzerland, Bern or Montreux, September 26 - 30, 2022 (synergy with HIMSS event)

• Status: planned, still to be finally confirmed

Next meeting

• Wednesday, October 6 2021, 06:00-07:00pm CT (Asia/US friendly time)

Global Deployment Coordination Committee