This is the introduction to a panel in the first eStandards conference aiming to bring together with Hospital CIOs, actors in the healthcare system: representative of payers, healthprofessionals to get a sense of the issues with interoperability in largescale eHealth deployment.

1. Standards and Profiles in Action for Europe and beyond
1st eStandards Conference: Next steps for
Standardization in health information Sharing
Health executives Panel
Catherine Chronaki
HL7 Foundation

2. Introduction
In the eStandards project (www.estandards-project.eu),
standards developing organizations join up with eHealth
stakeholders to build consensus on eHealth standards
• to create and adopt a Roadmap for alignment, iterative
consolidation, and broad adoption of eStandards,
• to contribute to the eHealth European Interoperability
Framework by resolving ambiguities & embedding
quality management, and
• to explore the socio-economic aspects of
interoperability standards.
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3. Standards developing organizations joining forces
standards sets and supporting tools
• eStandards, standards sets and supporting
tools are critical for sustaining, nurturing, and
scaling up large-scale eHealth Deployment in
Europe and beyond.
• Success depends on the cooperation and
coordination of multiple actors and
predominately standards developing
organizations.
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4. Healthcare Executives Panel
• In this panel we would like to take the health
system perspective, and approach the
information sharing needs of
– the hospital that experiences a major change in
the evolving digital reality
– The health professional that wish to save lives
– The insurance fund that needs to assess risk for
the people they are responsible for
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5. Panelists
• Prof. Björn Bergh, CIO/CTO, University Hospital
Heidelberg, User Chair of IHE Germany
• Prof. Dipak Kalra, President EuroRec Institute,
Belgium
• Domingos Silva Pereira, CIO, Centro Hospitalar
Vila Nova de Gaia/Espenho, Portugal
• Pajić Vanja, Croatian Health Insurance Fund,
Croatia
• Bernd Behrend, Vice-Chair KH-IT, German
hospital CIO association
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6. Panel Process
• Introductions
• Q1 (3 minutes):
– What are the priority areas for information sharing
within and between organizations that you are
now striving to achieve?
• Q2 (3 minutes):
– What are the difficulties you encounter in meeting
these needs, in terms of products, standards, data,
human or organizational factors?
• Discussion with the audience
• Final Statement
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7. introduction
• Tell us about yourself and your organization..
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8. First Question
• What are the priority areas for information
sharing within and between organizations that
you are now striving to achieve?
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9. Question #2
• What are the difficulties you encounter in
meeting these needs, in terms of products,
standards, data, human or organizational
factors?
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