HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting 2025 Cologne

HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting, 1-5 December 2025 in Cologne, Germany – Shape the future of FHIR® in Europe

The 3rd HL7 Europe WGM – great opportunities, intense disucssions, and loads of achievements, a successful event

HL7 Europe held its 3rd Working Group Meeting 1-5 December in Cologne, Germany. During the week, 160 individual participants were seen, some of them for the whole week, some for one or two days.

The focus of the meeting was the work for the FHIR specifications for the priority use cases of the European Health Data Space EHDS including the Laboratory Report, the EU Core and Base Profiles, Medication, Patient Summary and Discharge Report. Many additional topics were addressed in the around 60 different sessions and tracks over the week such as EU Project Insights for I2X and MyHealth@MyHands, xShare, Hospitals on FHIR and Gravitate Health, Conformity Framework for the EHDS, Synthetic data, Terminology, an API for Health Data Spaces, Care Plans, FHIR Registries for Rare Diseases.

Whole day tracks covered the Common Cancer Model, the German FHIR and Terminology Community Day, and Imaging manifest and report.

Materials and Presentations

Thanks to all participants for joining our HL7 Europe WGM. Here you can find most of the presentations, additional materials and a videographical review from the Working Group Meeting.

MONDAY 1 December

xShare Yellow Button Early Implementers and Adopters Experiences
Christaan Knaap, Argiris Gkogkidis, Geoffroy Vitoux

Advancing EHDS implementation with FHIR IGs in 2026: towards a roadmap [i2X]
Rutt Lindström, Michael Strübin

Render or Surrender – how to deal with human text in FHIR
Kai Heitmann, Hynek Kružík

Synthetic Data for the EHDS with SYNDERAI – an xShare deliverable / Demo: BabelFHIR-TS
Kai Heitmann, Maximilian Nussbaumer

TUESDAY 2 December

AI, FHIR, EHDS & the AI Act: Impacts on Healthcare Software and Standards
Stefano Micocci

Standards supporting Health System Resilience
Elena Petelos, Licínio Kustra Mano

Federating FHIR Terminology across Europe: Ecosystem, Management and Governance
Rob Hausam, José Costa Teixeira

Multi-Lingual FHIR Specifications, Release Publication Mechanics
José Costa Teixeira

EUDI Wallet Workshop
General principles, first use cases in eHealth, and testing strategy
Alberto Zanini

What are FHIR Obligations, the evolution of Must Support
Tutorial
Ward Weistra

The impact of EHDS on National Infrastructures
Tutorial
René Spronk

WEDNESDAY 3 December

FHIR and Terminology Community Day
(in German)
Kai Heitmann, Danny Ammon

FHIR for Health Data Registries
Catherine Chronaki, Ana Rath, Kai Heitmann, Adam Graefe

Current and Future HL7 Europe Initiatives: Hospital on FHIR
Luc Chatty, Stefano Dalmiati (remote), Rhonda Facile (remote), Kai Heitmann

xShare – Care Plans kick off
Morten Bruun-Rasmussen, Catherine Chronaki, N. Nash-Mendez, E. Panagiotopoulos, G. B. L. Erturkmen

THRUSDAY 4 December

Imaging Report
Imaging manifest and report
Bas van den Heuvel, Marc Kämmerer, Ignacio Jauregui

EMA SPOR and IDMP/PhPID services
Andrei Idu, Marcos Fernandez Gomez, Åsa Pärnaste

IDMP/PhPID for EU prescription and dispense
Rutt Lindström, Elin May Merry, Bernd Moeske

Laboratory Report LAB + CORE
How to address EHDS Medical Test Results, Terminology, White Paper
Rob Hausam, Patrick Werner

Hospital Discharge Report HDR
Overview and Status, Scope extension discussion (EHDS)
Kai Heitmann, Hynek Kružík, Affiliates

Conformity framework proposal
for EHDS
Discussion
Alexander Berler

Electronic Product Information
EMA Product Management System
João Almeida, Anne Moen, Frank Ploeg, Bente By Janssen, Glen Hodgeson

FRIDAY 3 December

Laboratory Report LAB
FHIR IG overview, status, panel handling, and further work
Hynek Kružík

Medication Prescription and Dispense
Dosage patterns
Patrick Werner, Rutt Lindström

Medication Management in Europe: How to Get Connected in a World of Moving Targets and Complex Legacy
Victor van Hagen, Tom de Jong

VIDEO RETROSPECTIVES

KEYNOTE HENRIQUE MARTINS