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EHRCON26 Schedule

Monday, September 21 ▼

09:00 – 12:00

Pre-Conference Clinical Modelling Workshop

Room 1

19:00 – 21:00

Pre-conference mixer

Join us for networking before the main event. First drink free, courtesy of

Arca Bar, Amsterdam

21:00 – 00:00

Late Night Penguin Club

Venue to be confirmed • sponsored by Technicise

Tuesday, September 22 ▼

07:30 – 08:30

Registration

Collect your badge and EHRCON26 goodie bag

Foyer

08:30 – 08:50

Welcome

Dr. Jordi Piera Jiménez (openEHR International CEO) • Tomaž Gornik (openEHR International Chair) • Wouter Zanen (openEHR Netherlands) • Herko Coomans (Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of The Netherlands) • Rachel Dunscombe (CEO, HL7)

Plenary (Red Hall)

08:50 – 09:00

Call to Action: Educational Partners

Rix Groenboom (Hanze University of Applied Sciences)

Plenary (Red Hall)

09:00 – 09:25

Keynote: The State of Global Interoperability Governance

Herko Coomans (Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of The Netherlands)

Plenary (Red Hall)

09:25 – 09:40

Interoperability in Healthcare towards an Interconnected Future

Rachel Fellner (OECD)

Plenary (Red Hall)

09:40 – 10:00

From Shared Care Records to the Conversational EHR

Tomaž Gornik (Better)

Plenary (Red Hall)

10:00 – 10:15

Ireland’s National Shared Care Record: From Concept to Reality

Alastair Allen (EY) & Gar Mac Criosta (HSE)

Plenary (Red Hall)

10:15 – 10:45

Refreshments

with thanks to our sponsor

Foyer

10:45 – 12:15 | Breakout Sessions

Plenary (Red Hall):
EHDS

Room 6&7:
openEHR 101

Room 8:
Education

Room 9:
Compliance & Conformance

10:45

10:45 – 11:05

Keynote

Konstantin Hyppönen (DG SANTE)

10:45 – 11:00

Education enabling openEHR success

Hanna Pohjonen (Rosaldo / openEHR EPB) & David Moner Cano (Veratech / openEHR EPB)

11:00 – 11:45

Presentation of abstracts/posters from EHRCON26 Conference proceedings

with thanks to our sponsor

11:45 – 12:15

Presentations of openEHR Fellowship Projects from Cohort 1: 2025-26

Details TBC

15 minutes per presentation

Presentations

Starting with openEHR as a Healthcare Organisation: A Practical Guide – Martin van der Meer (Cadasto)
Introduction to Modelling – Martin Koch (CatSalut)
Moving Healthcare Data with the Care Demand – RSO Zuid Limburg – Remko Nienhuis & Wim Eurlings
Building Multidisciplinary Clinical Knowledge Modelling Teams from Scratch – The People (Part 1) – Laura Moral (CatSalut)
What Makes Health Data Truly Interoperable? The Patient-in-the-Loop Data Concept – John Kildea (McGill University)
TBC – Olivier Barets & Amandine Deslandes (Alliance SIH)

10:45 – 11:05

Conformance Testing openEHR with FHIR TestScript

Marc van Aalten & Jorn Duwel (Interoplab)

11:05 – 11:25

openEHR and the Enigma

Eric Browne (Montage Systems)

11:25 – 11:45

Multiprac: Turning clinical data into actionable infection surveillance

Chunlan Ma (Ocean Health Systems)

11:45 – 12:15

Measuring Collaboration

Cindy Throop (Open Health Research Institute)

11:05

11:05 – 11:25

Putting the pieces together for the EHDS implementation

Robert Stegwee (ESHIA)

11:25

11:25 – 11:45

Coordinating care at a national level: the case of Slovenia

Katarina Kralj (Slovenian Ministry of Health)

11:45

11:45 – 12:15

Panel Discussion

Facilitated by Luis Marco Ruiz (vitagroup) • Henrique Martins (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) • Robert Stegwee (ESHIA) • Ian McNicoll (freshEHR / openEHR) • Wouter Zanen (Nictiz) • Konstantin Hyppönen (DG SANTE)

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch

with thanks to our sponsor

13:30 – 15:00 | Breakout Sessions

Plenary (Red Hall):
openEHR

Room 6&7:
openEHR in the Wild 101

Room 8:
EHDS (cont’d)

Room 9:
Research & Innovation

13:30

13:30 – 13:50

The Trust Stack: QUANTUM Data Quality Label, openEHR, and the Rise of EHDS-Ready Data

Monica Jones (Animo Consultancy)

10 minutes per presentation

International Deployments

From Fragmentation to Sustainability: Asia’s Journey to Scalable Health Interoperability with openEHR – Kathir Kathiresan (Ezovion)
Bringing Functionality to Data: University Hospital Basel’s openEHR Journey – Maren Diepenbruck (University Hospital Basel)
Building Multidisciplinary Clinical Knowledge Modelling Teams from Scratch – Execution, Modelling Process, and Validations (Part 2) – Martin Koch (CatSalut) & Laura Moral (CatSalut)
openEHR goes DACH – a UMC builds its Clinical Observation and Resource Ecosystem (“CORE”) – Nour Zarrad (University Medical Center Mainz) & Sebastian Gerbholz (x-tention)
openEHR for Global Seafarers – Dr Remko Schats
Building a National EHR in Iran: An 18-Year Journey – Somayeh Abedian
Lithuania’s Journey from National openEHR Proof of Concept to Hospital Adoption – Antanas Montvila (Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)
From Fragmented Parenting Work to Sustainable Digital Care – Marju Eeriku (PAM – Parental Assistant in Medicine)
Usage of openEHR in the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology – Rinke Riezebos & Lucienne Grundeken (Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology)

13:30 – 13:45

Vulcan-openEHR Initiative: Integrating CDISC & MedDRA Standards for Prospective Clinical Trials

Dr John Powderly (Carolina BioOncology Institute & BioCytics Inc)

13:45 – 14:00

A DICOM RT DVH Caching Layer: Bridging DICOM and openEHR

Ruben Talstra (Hanze University of Applied Sciences)

14:00 – 14:15

Bridging Genomics and Clinical Care: the vcf2openehr Tool

Giovanni Delussu (CRS4)

14:15 – 14:30

Multi-standard Federated Clinical Query Framework

Koray Atalag (Galata Digital) & Dr John Powderly (Carolina Institute of Oncology & BioCytics Inc)

13:30 – 13:45

How is openEHR doing in the wild? Results from a vendor survey

Severin Kohler & Falk Meyer-Eschenbach (Charité)

13:45 – 14:30

Reports from the openEHR Program Boards (SPB, CPB, SEC, EPB, APB)

13:50 – 14:10

EHDS in Clinical Practice

Mika Kiviaho (Tieto Caretech)

14:10 – 14:30

Operationalising Citizen Data Access in a Decentralised Healthcare System: The Dutch MedMij Framework

Bart de Gans (Stichting MedMij)

14:30

14:30 – 14:50

Keynote: openEHR as an ecosystem

David Ingram (openEHR Foundation Board)

14:30 – 14:45

EHDS-Ready by Design: How openEHR Enables the European Health Data Space

Samo Drnovšek (Better)

14:45 – 15:00

From HCIMs to Generic Building Blocks: Aligning National Interoperability with EHDS

Malou Paiman & Wouter Zanen (Nictiz)

14:30 – 14:40

One Patient, One Record: Building a Semantic MPI on openEHR DEMOGRAPHIC Archetypes

Pablo Pazos (Cabolabs)

14:40 – 14:50

Strong Together for Tomorrow’s Healthcare: Basel University Hospital Tumor Board

Sofia Kauppila (Tieto Caretech) & Dr. Maren Diepenbruck (University Hospital Basel)

14:50 – 15:00

From Interoperability to Innovation: What Makes an openEHR Ecosystem Innovation-Ready?

Yana Yoncheva (DayOne by Basel Area Business & Innovation)

14:50

14:50 – 15:00

Fellowship Awards

Somayeh Abedian (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute) • Ian Bennet (Better) • Martin Koch (CatSalut) • Xabier Michelena Vegas (CatSalut) • Dr Osama El Hassan • Dr Lars Fuhrmann (German Society of Ophthalmology)

15:00 – 15:30

Refreshments

with thanks to our sponsor

Foyer

15:30 – 16:00

From Record to Intelligence. Now it’s time to deliver value

Dr Myriam Fernández Martín, PhD (AWS)

Plenary (Red Hall)

16:00 – 16:30

Catalonia’s Open Platform

Dr Xabier Michelena Vegas (CatSalut) & Jesús Pulgarín Paños (NTT Data)

Plenary (Red Hall)

16:30 – 16:50

AI-based data integration – lessons learned

Dr Nils Hellrung (vitagroup)

Plenary (Red Hall)

16:50 – 17:40

Panel: Policy and Governance

Konstantin Hyppönen (DG SANTE) • Herko Coomans (Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of The Netherlands) • Katarina Kralj (Slovenian Ministry of Health) • Robert Stegwee (ESHIA)

Plenary (Red Hall)

17:40 – 18:00

Day 1 Round-up

Dr. Jordi Piera Jiménez (openEHR)

Plenary (Red Hall)

18:00 – 23:00

Drinks reception, dinner and entertainment

courtesy of our sponsor

Blue Hall

23:00 – 01:00

Late Night Penguin Club

Venue to be confirmed • sponsored by Technicise

Wednesday, September 23 ▼

08:30 – 08:40

Welcome & Day 1 Recap

Plenary (Red Hall)

08:40 – 09:10

Keynote: Success changes the problem

Aloha McBride (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)

Plenary (Red Hall)

09:10 – 09:35

Health at Our Fingertips. How the EUDI Wallet – EHDS Digital Twin Ecosystem is Transforming Healthcare

Zoltan Lantos (Department of Health, Ireland)

Plenary (Red Hall)

09:35 – 10:00

From ‘Finishing standards’ To ‘Governing Building Blocks’

Walter Kraan (Nictiz)

Plenary (Red Hall)

10:00 – 10:30

Panel: Next-Generation EHR

Facilitated by Tomaž Gornik (Better) • Xabier Michelena Vegas (CatSalut) • Dr. Mathias Göschl (Schwarz Charité Health Data) • Marc van Aalten (Interoplab) • Kari-Antti Kuosa (Tieto Caretech)

Plenary (Red Hall)

10:30 – 11:00

Refreshments

with thanks to our sponsor

Foyer

11:00 – 12:00 | Breakout Sessions

Plenary (Red Hall):
Clinical

Room 6&7:
openEHR Affiliates & Marketing

Room 8&9:
Research

11:00

11:00 – 11:30

The Forgotten Foundation: Clinicians, Coordination, and the Future of Care

Dr Mehdi Khaled (SEHA)

11:00 – 11:30

What Can Your Affiliate Do for You?

Wouter Zanen (Nictiz)

11:00 – 11:30

Clinical Knowledge Management: The Good, the Bad and the Mappings

Dr Sebastian Garde (Ocean Health Systems)

11:30

11:30 – 11:50

Untapped Potential in Specialist Clinical Domains – Progress and Collaborations in Eye Care

Dr Lars Fuhrmann (German Society of Ophthalmology)

11:30 – 12:00

Marketing and Stakeholder Management

Facilitated by Lukas Eksteen (Ocean Health Systems) • Brina Tomovič Kandare (Better) • Maja Dragovic (vitagroup) • Jenny Luco (Cadasto) • Peter Bouvier (openEHR)

11:30 – 12:00

openEHR Archetypes as Dimensional SQL Models

Dr Sidharth Ramesh (Medblocks)

11:50

11:50 – 12:00

openOutcomes: Harnessing openEHR for Value-Based Healthcare

Kanthan Theivendran

12:00 – 13:15

Lunch

with thanks to our sponsor

13:15 – 15:15 | Breakout Sessions

Plenary (Red Hall):
Interoperability

Room 6&7:
Agentic AI

Room 8&9:
Modelling (cont’d)

13:15

13:35

13:55

14:15

14:35

13:15 – 13:35

Scaling the EHDS with an openEHR/FHIR Co-Modelling Platform – and a Realistic AI Strategy

Seref Arikan (Ocean Informatics)

13:35 – 13:55

How openEHR Fits in a Landscape of Dutch Use Cases and Generic Functions

Gasper Andrejc (Syntaric)

13:55 – 14:15

Mapping openEHR and OMOP: Updates on the OHDSI OMOP-openEHR Working Group

Diego Boscá Tomás (Veratech) • Somayeh Abedian (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention) • Severin Kohler (Berlin Institute of Health in der Charité)

14:15 – 14:35

Accelerating EHDS Readiness: Advancing openEHR and FHIR Alignment for European Interoperability

Joost Holslag (freshEHR)

14:45

14:35 – 14:45

openEHR x IHE

Janos Vincze (IHE)

14:45 – 15:10

Panel: Interoperability

Facilitated by John Meredith (openEHR) • Severin Kohler (vitagroup) • Ian McNicoll (openEHR) • Diego Boscá Tomás (OMOP) • Janos Vincze (IHE)

15:10 – 15:15

EHDS Building Blocks Sandbox using OpenEHR

Chandra Shekhar Sengupta (Technicise)

13:15 – 13:45

The Power of Agentic AI to Speed Up openEHR Development

Sebastian Iancu (Cadasto)

13:45 – 14:00

Accelerating EHR Modernization with AI: From Legacy Data to openEHR

Kari-Antti Kuosa (Tieto Caretech)

14:00 – 14:15

Next Phase of Archetype Modelling for Integrated Care Using AI

Gerard Freriks & Angelo Rossi-Mori

14:15 – 14:30

Generation is a commodity. Conformance is not. Governed application building on the openEHR record

Benjamin Muhic (Better)

14:30 – 14:45

Three for three

Kent Vorland (Realize-365) • Chandra Shekhar Sengupta (Technicise) • Tiago Cunha Costa (Bloodflow)

14:45 – 15:00

Beyond the EHR: Turning openEHR Data into Clinical Intelligence with Conversational AI

Jan Vekemans (EMEA Sales/Country Director, Edenlab)

15:00 – 15:15

Data Exists, Access Doesn’t. Towards the Conversational EHR

Robert Tovornik (Better)

13:15 – 13:35

Modelling Session

Sam Heard (Ocean Health Systems)

13:35 – 13:50

The Clinical Record Did It: Modelling as a patient safety intervention.

John Meredith

13:50 – 14:05

Bridging Interoperability: A Community-Driven Approach to EHDS from BGZ through openFHIR

Joost Holslag (freshEHR) • Wouter Zanen (Nictiz) • Gasper Andrejc (openFHIR) • Daniel Theunissen (DataHub Maastricht)

14:05 – 14:15

Collaborative Clinical Modelling Across Organisations

Nina Bougatf, Head of Strategic Sales and Business Development, DACH (Tieto Caretech)

14:15 – 14:35

Data Standardization in Audiology: Insights from the Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all.connects”

Lena Schell-Majoor (Carl von Ossietzky Universität)

14:35 – 15:15

Stop Building Islands, Start Building Stations: One-Click Federated Health Data with HAIDAL

Pascal Suppers & Igor Schoonbrood (Maastricht UMC+)

15:15 – 15:45

Refreshments

with thanks to our sponsor

Foyer

15:45 – 16:05

Sovereign Health Data Integration in European Medicine: Insights from the Schwarz Charité Health Data Platform

Stefan Becker (Schwarz Charité Health Data GmbH)

Plenary (Red Hall)

16:05 – 16:25

Standards-based reference architecture for Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for health

Chinemerem Eyetan (WHO)

Plenary (Red Hall)

16:25 – 16:30

Presentation of The David Ingram Award

Plenary (Red Hall)

16:30 – 17:00

Panel: What’s Next?

Herko Coomans (Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of The Netherlands) • Walter Kraan (Nictiz) • Gar Mac Criosta (Health Service Executive Ireland) • Chinemerem Eyetan (WHO) • Moderated by Dr. Jordi Piera Jiménez (openEHR)

Plenary (Red Hall)

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