HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting Málaga 2026

Join us! HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting 2026 in Málaga!

Join us in Málaga, Spain, for the next HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting 2026

Date: Monday 16 to Friday 20 November 2026
Location: NH Málaga, C. San Jacinto, 2, Distrito Centro, 29007 Málaga, Spain (in-person event)

Satellite: xShare Closing Event Thursday 19 November (afternoon) to Saturday 21 November 2026

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Please pre-register to reserve your seat, as it could get crowded.

Tentative Agenda – Key Elements November 2026

HL7 Europe meets in Málaga for five days of working sessions on

• the European FHIR Implementation Guides and European Health Data Space topics,
• tutorials and workshops,
• adoption in practice
• hands-on testing,
• FHIR in an instance, and
• project work and governance meetings.

Implementation Guide work. We plan sessions across the full set, cross-cutting topics come first: open JIRA issues, obligations under Articles 15 and 36, logical model alignment, alignment with EHDS expectations. We present a summary of what has changed since the last Working Group Meeting. From there the work splits into Laboratory and Medical Test Result with the new microbiology profiles, Core with new profiles such as CarePlan, Imaging, the Medicinal Product Dictionary together with the IHE MPD status, and ePS/HDR with the Data API and the EU Digital Identity Wallet.

Tutorials and workshops. An introduction to the EU FHIR IGs, the EU Wallet, SNOMED on FHIR including the LOINC extension, MyHealth@EU services, and EHDS status and perspectives with the European Commission alongside vendor and implementer views. WHO UMC leads a session on the PhPID API for ePrescription and eDispensation, facilitated by HL7 Europe MPD, with hands-on testing for volunteers.

Adoption in practice. National agencies and implementers report on what actually happened when the guides met production systems: issues and the solutions found, instance validation, EHDS-related national implementations, and feedback that goes straight back into the IGs.

A full day of hands-on testing. Testing instead of slides, with no parallel technical sessions. On the programme are EHDS scenarios including EURIDICE specifications, the pre-adoption of the R5 document bundle rules in Laboratory, the Medicinal Product Dictionary, EMA, and mHealth@myHand with the Wallet.

FHIR in an instance. Render or surrender: narrative text in FHIR resources under the EHDS. SYNDERAI, the synthetic data set for EHDS testing, validation and teaching, presented together with its visualisation.

Projects and governance. xShare, the European Common Cancer Model and PHOENIX, and EURIDICE, plus the TNT meeting, the HL7 Europe Board meeting and the first session of the new European FHIR IG Management Group.

Venue is the NH Málaga, C. San Jacinto 2, 29007 Málaga. The xShare closing event follows from 19 to 21 November.

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Normal Rate 599 EUR incl. 21% VAT (Spain)
Early Bird Rate 499 EUR incl. 21% VAT (Spain)

All tickets are subject to 21% Spanish VAT.

Please note: Consider booking your hotel rooms at your earliest convince.

NH Málaga, C. San Jacinto, 2, Distrito Centro, 29007 Málaga, Spain