The EHDS Regulation went into force last month and over the coming years will require national European healthcare systems to increasingly process and transfer health data according to common specifications, to enable interoperability across and within Member States. Developing these specifications will require a significant effort and collaboration of the Commission and Member States with Standards developing organisations, as well as healthcare organisations, industry, stakeholders, and technical experts. Among the EHDS regulation’s six priority categories of health data will be data from laboratory systems, which enable diagnostic decisions and help healthcare professionals and patients manage chronic conditions.
In our HL7 Europe “Labs-on-FHIR” webinar series, we are looking this month at the experience of Spain. With its 18 regional healthcare systems, the experience of Spain in connecting diverse healthcare systems may offer some instructive lessons for the rest of Europe. With more than 90% of its citizens having access to their patient summaries, Spain is among the more digitally advanced EU Member States. Spain also played a significant role in shaping the EHDS regulation to ensure its provisions are realistic and manageable for providers and manufacturers during its Presidency of the EU Council.
The featured speaker will be Dr. Alexander Zlotnik from the Directorate of Digital Health and Information Systems in the Spanish Ministerio de Sanidad. He will share an overview of the Spanish healthcare system, discuss the history and status of laboratory systems’ interoperability within Spain and with Europe, and reflect on the EHDS regulation’s development and implementation. As usual, there will be a panel of experts, and plenty of time for audience Q&A.
Panellists will include:
– Catherine E Chronaki, FHL7, FIAHSI, HL7 Europe
– Nikos Kyriakoulakos, HL7 Hellas
… and others
The webinar will be facilitated by Michael Strübin from HL7 Europe.
For more information and to register, go to: https://shorturl.at/RZawK
