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 Images from the ninth annual IHE-Europe Connectathon held in Vienna.
Squado Arsenal tests XCA with 5 systems at Connectathon
 “When you are testing interoperability, it is rare that the problem is only on one side. That is the big advantage for Connectathon because both companies can work out the problems and solve it quickly,” said Claudio Saccavini with Arsenal.it. Five companies connecting 36 hospitals in Italy’s Venato region came to the European Connectathon in Vienna with Arsenal.it for final tests before implementation of their systems for cross-community access. With 450 million people covered by healthcare systems in 27 countries, Europe presents unique challenges for Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE). IHE-Europe creates a common ground and a shared goal of achieving a seamless flow of patient information. A hospital pharmacist who played a key role in the creation of the Pharmacy domain for Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), Jacqueline Surugue was elected the Co Chair for Users of IHE Europe Steering Committee in June. Europe’s largest interoperability event drew 230 health information technology engineers, system programmers and 10 new companies for five days of testing that saw a significant increase in use of profiles for cross-enterprise and cross-community document sharing. The past year saw substantial advances across e-health projects in Europe as regional, national and European-level programs reported moving from strategy development to deployment. Two days of presentations during the ninth annual European Connectathon in Vienna provided a panorama of progress with updates and profiles of best practices. IHE-Austria organized an ambitious two-day program of of presentations and workshops during Connectathon 2009 to increase awareness and understanding of IHE methods and best practices for a broad range of healthcare clinicians and health technology managers, as well as product manufacturers and service providers. For its 10th anniversary edition the European Connectathon returns to France where it all began in 2001. The societal and economic benefits from wider use of telemedicine are potentially huge. Yet, at the present moment, they are far from being fully appreciated or achieved. To help realize the potential to enhance patients' lives and to offer new tools to health professionals through telemedicine the European Commission announced its full support for Member States IHE receives ISO recognition for health informatics standards adoption IHE as Solutions Provider for eHealth Interoperability IHE-Europe part of epSOS consortium, a European eHealth Project |
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