Projects contributing to European EHRxF

Projects that have contributed, or are currently contributing, to the development of the European EHRxF and its implementation.

X-eHealth

During the European Commission’s innovation project X-eHealth, a framework was developed meant for (international) exchange of health data. This common framework covered medical imaging, discharge letters, laboratory results and rare diseases. Furthermore, the framework was used to facilitate data exchange between health entities across EU Member States and individual patients. This resulted into the European EHRxF which laid the foundation for future EU projects and further innovation.

> x-ehealth.eu

X-Share

xShare envisions everyone sharing their health data in European EHRxF with a click-of-a-button. The xShare Yellow Button to be featured across health portals and patient apps and allow people to exercise their data portability rights under GDPR. Hence, the European EHRxF will be the driver for research and innovation in EHDS.

> xshare-project.eu

TEHDAS2

As a successor to the TEHDAS project, Joint Action 10 (JA10) or TEHDAS2 kick off was in May 2024. TEHDAS2 aims to develop, in active cooperation, guidelines and technical specifications for common use for the implementation of the EHDS for the secondary use of health data. The main objective of the joint action is to prepare implementation of common measures, enabling the secondary use as proposed in the EHDS. Given the ambitions of xShare to extend the use of the European EHRxF to secondary use, at least for select additional settings, discussions around possible collaboration are underway to facilitate bridges from EHRxF to secondary use in existing and future categories of health data.

> tehdas.eu

Other relevant projects related to the EHDS and EEHRxF

• AIDAVA – automate curation and publishing of personal health data through artificial intelligence > aidava.eu

• eCREAM – enabling clinical research in emergency and acute care medicine > ecreamproject.eu

• EHDS2 – piloting an infrastructure for the secondary use of health data > ehds2pilot.eu

• Gravitate Health – empowering and equipping Europeans with health information for active personal health management and adherence to treatment > gravitatehealth.eu

• IPS – an established collaboration of SDOs on the International Patient Summary Suite of standards > international-patient-summary.net

• Label2Enable – promoting a quality label for health apps > label2enable.eu

• PATHeD – providing patients access to their translated patient summary data > ehealth.cut.ac.cy/pathed

• POTENTIAL – using the EUDI Wallet for an electronic prescription > digital-identity-wallet.eu/use-cases/uc6

• QUANTUM – developing a data quality and utility label for the European Health Data Space > quantumproject.eu

• UNICOM – providing guidance for univocal identification of medicinal products using IDMP > unicom-project.eu

• XiA Project – The Xpanding Innovative Alliance (XiA) project is dedicated to advancing interoperability within the healthcare sector, particularly in anticipation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation > www.linkedin.com/company/xia-eu-project

Specifically for the EHDS and EEHRxF two demonstrator projects have been selected and are currently in the process of drawing up grant agreements with the European Commission:

• Demonstrating the in-service use of the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) in healthcare settings (DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-AI-06-HEALTHRECORD)

  • i2X – Intelligent Implementations of the European EHR Exchange Format

• Supporting patients’ access to their health data in the context of healthcare services for citizens across the EU (DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-AI-06-HEALTHACCESS)

  • MyHealth@MyHand