Trillium Bridge Presentation at the EU/US Marketplace event in Brussels.

1. Trillium Bridge: Transatlantic
Exchange of Patient Summaries
Catherine CHRONAKI
Secretary General, HL7 Foundation
euOffice@HL7.org
www.trilliumbridge.eu
Co-Funded under
FP7-610756

2. 2
Trillium Bridge Project:
a builder perspective…
The problem The Solution
What can we do to lower the
cost of transatlantic business
engagement in eHealth?
Reduce barriers for transatlantic
coordination, health care, trade
Decrease standards development
and implementation costs
Accelerate convergence towards
global standards
Support right of citizens to their
health data and safety
Well, perhaps we could try
building..
…a Transantlantic Bridge for
EHR summaries!
• Pragmatic Feasibility study on the
exchange of Patient Summaries
across the Atlantic
• Compare, analyze, and map EU/US
patient summaries starting with
Meaningful Use 2 C-CDA/CCD and
EU patient summaries (epSOS)
• July 2013 to February 2015
• Stellar consortium of EU member
Innovative
Entrepreneurs
state provider networks,
associations, SDOs US Health
Care
Providers

3. 3
Trillium Bridge: status and work ahead
Building the Transatlantic bridge for EHR patient summaries
Completed Gap analysis
White paper with US ONC S&I WG EHR interoperability
D2.2. user stories, use cases, and business architecture
Identified interoperability Assets
Established STS terminology
service associating EU/US terms
proof of concept transformer of EHR structures
and semantics
Inform and support standardization efforts
ground work of an Intl EHR patient summary
Refine assets, work on the puzzle through validation
Test with EU countries and US providers
Set the tone and pace for interoperability
in the global eHealth ecosystem.
Attain the vision and aims of EU-US
eHealth MoU and roadmap!
Selecting
Grounds
Building
the
Bridge
Testing
the
Bridge
Policy
We are Alignment
here
CTS-2
Trillium
transformer