Periodic Reporting for period 1 - XpanDH (Expanding Digital Health through a pan-European EHRxF-based Ecosystem)
Berichtszeitraum: 2023-01-01 bis 2023-12-31
XpanDH is a CSA aimed at mobilizing and building capacity in individuals and organisations to create, adapt and explore purposeful use of interoperable digital health solutions based on a shared adoption of the European Electronic Health Records Exchange format (EEHRxF) across Europe. This pan-European effort is using a “network-of-networks” approach ensuring that digital health actors are motivated and supported by tailored guidance and real examples to help early adopters to advance to the concrete use of EEHRxF-embedded digital health solutions to add value to health and care and promote Personal and European Health Data Spaces.
XpanDH pursues the main goal of maturing and accelerating a sustainable and scalable interoperability environment for digital health innovations based on the EEHRxF, around 5 Goals:
1) To develop robust technical specifications and resources for the EEHRxF building;
2) To establish the X-Bundle Readiness model;
3) To verify the usefulness of the XBundle in real-world with a set of early adopters grouped under selected adoption domains;
4) To mature a pan-European digital health ecosystem of solution providers and end-users,
5) To develop a framework for sustainable ecosystem.
The consortium will thrive on past and ongoing eHealth interoperability projects and services, and particularly on the X-eHealth and DigitalHealthEurope projects recommendations, through digital health data activism and strong patient engagement.
It brings together 32 Digital Health Actors under a co-creation and co-implementation concept, supported by a Policy Board (linking to Governments and the eHealth Network). To expand its impact, 10 XpanDH networks of hundreds of health stakeholders will be nurtured to form a vibrant pan-European (Digital) Health space converging on common, usable, and reliable tools for real interoperable services that adoption of the EEHRxF and enhance healthcare cooperation for better health towards a European Health Union.
XpanDH pursues the main goal of maturing and accelerating a sustainable and scalable interoperability environment for digital health innovations based on the EEHRxF, around 5 Goals:
1) To develop robust technical specifications and resources for the EEHRxF building;
2) To establish the X-Bundle Readiness model;
3) To verify the usefulness of the XBundle in real-world with a set of early adopters grouped under selected adoption domains;
4) To mature a pan-European digital health ecosystem of solution providers and end-users,
5) To develop a framework for sustainable ecosystem.
The consortium will thrive on past and ongoing eHealth interoperability projects and services, and particularly on the X-eHealth and DigitalHealthEurope projects recommendations, through digital health data activism and strong patient engagement.
It brings together 32 Digital Health Actors under a co-creation and co-implementation concept, supported by a Policy Board (linking to Governments and the eHealth Network). To expand its impact, 10 XpanDH networks of hundreds of health stakeholders will be nurtured to form a vibrant pan-European (Digital) Health space converging on common, usable, and reliable tools for real interoperable services that adoption of the EEHRxF and enhance healthcare cooperation for better health towards a European Health Union.
The main achievements of the project so far can be found below in a non-exhaustive list.
• Organisation and co-chair the first ‘European EHRxF Expert Summit’ held in Brussels at 12 Dec 2023.
• An open repository of artefacts in support of the future European EHR Exchange Format specifications organised per adoption domain (x-bundles).
• A framework proposal for quality labelling of Digital Consumer Health Products
• Development of a readiness model that’s currently covers Laboratory Result Report and Hospital Discharge Summary use-cases, with potential extensions in scope.
• Definition of the adoption domains, and the development of six experimental X-bubbles
• Engagement of external partners around the X-nets, that’s compose a broad vision about the eHealth ecosystem.
• A project mapping identifying the state of play of projects and initiatives in Europe.
• Organisation and co-chair the first ‘European EHRxF Expert Summit’ held in Brussels at 12 Dec 2023.
• An open repository of artefacts in support of the future European EHR Exchange Format specifications organised per adoption domain (x-bundles).
• A framework proposal for quality labelling of Digital Consumer Health Products
• Development of a readiness model that’s currently covers Laboratory Result Report and Hospital Discharge Summary use-cases, with potential extensions in scope.
• Definition of the adoption domains, and the development of six experimental X-bubbles
• Engagement of external partners around the X-nets, that’s compose a broad vision about the eHealth ecosystem.
• A project mapping identifying the state of play of projects and initiatives in Europe.
The project is still in execution and so far, we have advanced on broader policy engagement around the format, including a strict collaboration with the EC and other projects related, such as the Joint action Xt-HER, xShare and others in order to co-create and develop the specifications about the format and make awareness on the eHealth ecosystem.