The Hub

This section of the website is aimed at everyone who contributes to the creation of EHRxF. In The Hub, you will find backgrounds, announcements, reports and news.

The European Health Data Space regulation has been published and went into force in March 2025. No later than March 2027, the Commission will publish implementing acts laying down specifications for the European Electronic Health Record exchange Format (EHRxF). These specifications are being discussed and developed in the joint action Xt-EHR and the xShare project in a collaboration of the Commission, Member States, SDOs and stakeholders.

Key documents from the European Commission on the European Electronic Health Record exchange Format:

• Commission Recommendation on a European Electronic Health Record exchange format (C(2019)800) of 6 February 2019

• The European Health Data Space Regulation (EU 2025/327) of 5 March 2025 (overview and actual regulation link)

The European Electronic Health Record exchange Format is based on a number of (industry) standards for the exchange of personal electronic health data, as developed, published, and maintained by Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs) including ISO/TC 215, CEN/TC 251, HL7 International, HL7 Europe, IHE International, IHE Europe, and SNOMED International. Together, these SDOs are committed to supporting the implementation and extension of the European EHRxF through a series of projects. The xShare project, in particular, is committed to the formation of the European EHRxF Standards and Policy Hub – a neutral and supportive environment to make sure that industry efforts, specific implementation programmes and projects, as well as other EEHRxF related projects, are aligned with the EHDS regulation, the European EHRxF, and the underlying standards. Through the SDOs and others participating in the Hub, the European EHRxF is expected to influence the further development of global standards, effectively providing the groundwork for a global EHRxF.