Standardize or Not to Standardize: Fit-for-Purpose Approaches to Interoperability
Onsdag 21 maj 2025 16:20 - 17:00 Vitalis Plaza
Moderator: Alexander BerlerPaneldeltagare: Licínio Kustra Mano, Oskar Thunman, Sara Meunier, Serkawt Khola
Spår: Health data
In the race to operationalize the European Health Data Space (EHDS), one of the most debated challenges is not whether to standardize, but how to standardize smartly. This panel brings together key organizations deeply involved in shaping health data infrastructures across Europe: Inera, which leads national digital health services for Sweden; SNOMED International, the steward of the globally adopted clinical terminology SNOMED CT; Cambio, a leading implementer of openEHR-based platforms; and CEN/TC 251, the European committee responsible for health informatics standardization.
Moderated by Alexander Berler (IHE), the session will explore how different standards—including FHIR, openEHR, SNOMED CT, and OMOP—can be aligned or profiled to support EHDS use cases such as cross-border care, secondary data use, and real-time clinical decision-making. How can regions build on existing infrastructure, as Sweden aims to do, while ensuring future compatibility with pan-European requirements? What governance and conformance mechanisms are needed to make these standards workable in practice, not just on paper?
This panel offers a grounded conversation on what “fit-for-purpose standardization” really means in the context of EHDS. Attendees will hear diverse views on coexistence vs. convergence, the role of open platforms, and how to navigate Europe's fragmented—but rapidly maturing—interoperability landscape. The session is designed to move beyond abstract principles and offer practical takeaways for policymakers, implementers, and vendors alike.
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Live + på plats
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Föreläsare
Alexander Berler Moderator
Strategic Business Development Director
IHE Catalyst
Dr Berler has an MSc in Biomedical Engineering and a PhD in Medical Informatics. He was affiliated with the Electrical Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, as a Postgraduate Student and Research Associate in the areas of healthcare information systems interoperability, medical informatics and telemedicine. He also worked at Information Society SA, as a Project Director responsible for large healthcare informatics projects of the Greek government. He has participated in numerous eHealth consulting and implementation projects in around the world in countries such as Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Italy, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, USA, Canada, Latin America, WHO, EU Commission, etc. He is currently the R&D and consulting services director at Gnomon informatics since 2006. He is an active interoperability expert supporting both IHE since 2015, currently in his capacity of Strategic Business Development Director at IHE Catalyst, and HL7 as the current Vice Chair of HL7 Hellas, the Greek HL7 International Affilia
Licínio Kustra Mano Paneldeltagare
Customer Relations Lead for Europe
SNOMED International
Licínio Kustra Mano is the Customer Relations Lead for Europe at SNOMED International, where he focuses on advancing the adoption of SNOMED CT across European healthcare systems. With a background in digital health policy and cross-border infrastructure architecture, he previously contributed to the European Commission’s initiatives on the European Health Data Space. Licínio is passionate about ensuring that health data remains comprehensible, accessible, and useful for generations to come.
Oskar Thunman Paneldeltagare
It-arkitekt Samverkansarkitektur och integrationer
Inera
Interoperabilitetsarkitekt på Inera.
Sara Meunier Paneldeltagare
Cambio
Serkawt Khola Paneldeltagare
Dr.
CEN
Dr. Serkawt Khola is a specialized expert in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Pattern Recognition who has been active in these fields since the late 1990s, working across multiple countries in both academic and industry roles. He serves as a member expert in various international health informatics standards organizations, including ISO/TC 215 and CEN/TC 251, where he co-leads projects like the Pseudonymization of Healthcare Data standard. As CEO and founder of EvoMedics ApS in Denmark, he collaborates with hospitals and universities on chronic kidney disease research, while also serving as a researcher at Rigshospitalet's Vascular Surgery Department. Throughout his 2.5-decade career, Dr. Khola has led numerous AI/ML healthcare projects and pioneering work in self-driving vehicles, including early EU Commission-funded research and collaboration with NASA JPL.