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Semantic Interoperability for Health Network
Deliverable 9.5 Final plan for the dissemination and use of project results
[Version 1.0, May 29, 2015]
Call: FP7-ICT-2011-7 Grant agreement for: Network of Excellence (NoE) Project acronym: SemanticHealthNet Project full title: Semantic Interoperability for Health Network Grant agreement no.: 288408 Budget: 3.222.380 EURO Funding: 2.945.364 EURO Start: 01.12.2011 - End: 31.05.2015 Website: www.semantichealthnet.eu Coordinators:
The SemanticHealthNet project is partially funded by the European Commission.
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Document description
Deliverable: D9.5 Final plan for the dissemination and use of project results Publishable summary:
Deliverable 9.5 describes the method for the dissemination and use of the SemanticHealthNet project results after the project life-time (May 2015). First section of this deliverable lists the results while the second section describes the dissemination channels and media being used. The final section deals with the exploitation.
Status: Final Version: 1.0 Public: □ No Yes Deadline: May 31 2015 Contact: Geert Thienpont [email protected] Editors: Geert Thienpont [email protected]
Dipak Kalra [email protected] Inge Lamote [email protected]
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1 Table of Contents
1 Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3
2 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 The SemanticHealthNet Project .............................................................................................. 4
2.2 Executive Summary of the Deliverable ................................................................................... 5
3 Project Results ................................................................................................................................. 6
3.1 Deliverables ............................................................................................................................. 6
3.2 Publications, Conference Presentations ................................................................................. 7
3.3 SHN Videos ............................................................................................................................ 22
3.4 i~HD ....................................................................................................................................... 23
4 Plan for dissemination ................................................................................................................... 24
4.1 Communication Matrix .......................................................................................................... 24
4.2 Website and social media...................................................................................................... 27
4.3 Events and partners’ networks.............................................................................................. 28
5 Exploitation of results .................................................................................................................... 29
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2 Introduction
2.1 The SemanticHealthNet Project
Semantic interoperability of EHR systems is a vital prerequisite for enabling patient-centred care and
advanced clinical and biomedical research. SemanticHealthNet will develop a scalable and
sustainable pan-European organisational and governance process to achieve this objective across
healthcare systems and institutions.
A clinical focus on chronic heart failure and cardiovascular prevention in the workplan will drive the
semantic resources to be developed. The exemplars in cardiology and public health are specific
enough to permit comprehensive development and validation of these resources, and yet typical
enough for wider generalisation of the methodology and its governance. SemanticHealthNet will
capture the needs articulated by clinicians and public health experts for evidence-based, patient-
centred integrated care in these domains. Existing European consensus in the management of
chronic heart failure and cardiovascular prevention will then be integrated in EHR architectures,
clinical data structures, terminologies and ontology by leading technical experts.
Clinical and Industrial Advisory Boards will provide links with other domains in which these results
can be used beneficially. The project will investigate how best to combine and adapt informatics
resources to support semantic interoperability, and how these can be developed and supported at
scale. Results of this investigation will be generalised and formalised. The involvement of health
authorities, clinical professionals, insurers, ministries of health, vendors, and purchasers will ensure
that the project approach and results are realistically adoptable and viable. This work will also build
on the SemanticHEALTH and CALLIOPE roadmaps for eHealth interoperability.
A business model to justify strategic investments, including the opportunity costs for key
stakeholders such as Standards Development Organisations and industry, will be defined. Links with
the epSOS large scale pilot and the eHealth Governance Initiative, will inform the shape of the Virtual
Organisation that this Network will establish to sustain semantic interoperability developments and
their adoption.
The consortium comprises 17 Partners and more than 40 internationally recognised experts,
including from USA and Canada, ensuring a global impact.
Partners
1. Research in Advanced Medical Informatics and Telematics
(RAMIT) – BE (Admin Coordinator)
2. Imperial College London (Imperial) – UK
3. University of Hull (UHULL) – UK
4. University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) – CH
5. World Health Organization (WHO) – CH
6. The University of Manchester (UoM) – UK
7. Medical University of Graz (MUG) – AT
8. International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) – DK
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9. Institut National de la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) – FR
10. Ocean Informatics (Ocean) – UK
11. Health Level 7 International Foundation (HL7 International) – BE
12. EN13606 Association (EN13606) – NL
13. Empirica Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH (EMPIRICA) – DE
14. European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT
Industry (COCIR) – BE
15. Whittington NHS Trust (WHIT) – UK
16. European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec) – FR (NoE Coordinator)
17. Data Mining International (DMI) - CH
Project Plan
Workstream I:
WP1: Patient care exemplar (heart failure)
WP2: Public health exemplar (coronary prevention)
WP3: Stakeholder validation
Workstream II:
WP4: Harmonised resources
WP5: Infostructure and tools
WP6: Industrial engagement
Workstream III:
WP7: Adoption and sustainability
WP8: European Virtual Organisation
WP9: Project management, dissemination, promotion
2.2 Executive Summary of the Deliverable
Deliverable D9.5 describes the plan for how the project consortium will disseminate and promote the
project results after the project life-time (May 2015). This activity also includes the public awareness
of the importance of the Semantic Interoperability of EHR systems.
In the first section, the deliverable focuses on the publishable projects results, while the second
section describes the methods to be applied for dissemination and exploitation.
The consortium will make use of the network(s) of stakeholders that have been enlarged and
strengthened during the project.
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3 Project Results
3.1 Deliverables
No Title WP Deadline
D1.1 Specification of scenarios and information flows for chronic heart failure WP1 May 2012 PU
D1.2 Collated chronic heart failure data sets, value sets and guidelines WP1 Nov 2012 PU
D1.3 Evaluation framework for semantically interoperable resources WP1 Feb 2014 PU
D2.1 Summarising Health Records for Populations Cardiovascular Use-cases WP2 Nov 2012 PU
D2.2 Review of semantic resources for supporting cardiovascular prevention across PHRs and EHRs WP2 Feb 2014 PU
D3.1 Initial methodology for developing semantic interoperability resources WP3 Nov 2012 PU
D3.2 Generalised methodology and analysis framework for semantic interoperability resources WP3 Feb 2014 PU
D3.3 Clinical stakeholders report on adoption and acceptance strategies WP3 Oct 2014 PU
D4.1 Initial models covering the heart failure use case WP4 Nov 2012 RE
D4.2 Ontology / Information models covering the heart failure use case WP4 May 2013 RE
D4.3 Ontology / Information models covering the public health use cases WP4 Feb 2014 RE
D4.4 Report on interface specifications between semantic artefacts WP4 Oct 2014 PU
D4.5 Publication of design guides / roadmap WP4 May 2015 PU
D5.1 Quality criteria & proposals for certification FW for semantically interoperable resources & systems WP5 Feb 2014 PU
D5.2 Design for a semantic interoperability infostructure and roadmap for its delivery WP5 Oct 2014 PU
D6.1 Recommendations to industry and to health ministries on the scaling up and widespread deployment ... WP6 Oct 2014 PU
D7.1 Identification of stakeholders WP7 Aug 2012 PU
D7.2 Analysis of stakeholder group value propositions and adoption strategies WP7 Feb 2014 PU
D7.3 Business models underpinning adoption & sustainability strategies WP7 Oct 2014 PU
D8.1 Business plan and roadmap WP8 May 2015 PU
D9.1 Project Website WP9 Jan 2012 PU
D9.2 Dissemination and promotion plan WP9 May 2012 PU
D9.3 Periodic Progress Report including financial report WP9 April 2014 PU
D9.4 Final Project Report including financial report WP9 May 2015 PU
D9.5 Final plan for the dissemination and use of project results WP9 May 2015 PU
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3.2 Publications, Conference Presentations
First Reporting Period
List of Dissemination activities
29 November 2011
Title: SemanticHealthNet
Event: Clinical Information Modelling Initiative workshop, London
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: international informatics experts
13 December 2011
Title: EHR Interoperability and ISO EN 13606
Event: Ministry of Health workshop, Singapore
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: Singaporean informatics experts
15 December 2011
Title: ISO EN 13606 and archetypes
Event: HL7 Singapore workshop, Singapore
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: Singaporean informatics experts and industry
24 January 2012
Title: Towards global standards for EHRs -for shared care and clinical research
Event: Intelligent use of national mental health data sets to drive improvements in quality of
care: A UCL Partners expert workshop, London
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: London clinicians and CIOs
16 February 2012
Title: Improving ISO EN 13606
Event: EN 13606 Association annual conference, Seville, Spain
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: European informatics experts and industry
17 February 2012
Title: ISO EN 13606 and Data Types
Event: EN 13606 Association annual conference, Seville, Spain
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: European informatics experts and industry
28 February 2012
Title: Promoting the use of high quality EHR systems in Europe
Event: EMBL-EBI Industry Workshop on the growing role of Electronic Medical Records in
translational bioinformatics, Cambridge, UK
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Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: European bio-informatics experts and industry
7 May 2012
Title: Sustainable infostructure for semantic assets
Event: EU-US Cooperation on eHealth, Copenhagen, Denmark
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: European health informatics experts, clinicians, industry, academics
8 May 2012
Title: A multi-stakeholder view of the Semantic Interoperability Challenge
Event: World of Health IT conference 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: European health informatics experts, clinicians, industry, academics
9 May 2012
Title: Towards semantic interoperability solutions
Event: EC eHealth workshop on “When the patient goes abroad”, Copenhagen, Denmark
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: European health informatics experts, clinicians, industry, academics
27 August 2012
Title: Trusting Clinical Information
Event: Medical Informatics Europe conference, Pisa, Italy
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: European health informatics experts, academics
28 August 2012
Title: Data quality challenges
Event: Medical Informatics Europe conference, Pisa, Italy
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: European health informatics experts, academics
18 September 2012
Title: The cross border interoperability of EHRs in Europe
Event: HIMSS Asia Pacific conference, Singapore
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: Asian, Australian, US health informatics experts, clinicians, industry, academics
5 October 2012
Title: ICT in Healthcare by 2050
Event: 15th European Health Forum Gastein, Bad Hofgastein, Salzburg, Austria
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: European health policy makers and other decision makers
15 January 2013
Title: Standardising the representation of clinical information: for patient care and for
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research
Event: Symposium - Mining electronic health records: towards better research applications
and clinical care, London, UK
Contributor: Dipak Kalra
Audience: London academics and clinicians
Type of activity: Discussion
Title: Data Stewardship Consensus Meeting
Date(s): 16th January 2012
Target Audience: Peers in field
Authors/presenters: Iain Buchan (UoM)
City, Country: Brussels, Belgium
Description: Discussion at the Data Stewardship Consensus Meeting Steering Committee
relating to Semantic interoperability
Type of activity: Presentation: Plenary Session
Title: Why doing nothing is not an option
Date(s):14-15th May 2012
Target Audience: European healthcare leaders from academia, public health, industry, users,
and government.
Author/presenters: Iain Buchan (UoM)
City, Country: Brussels, Belgium
Description: Presentation of Health Data Re-use
Type of activity: Conference Talk
Title: COCPIT: A Tool for Integrated Care Pathway Variance Analysis
Date(s): August 27th 2012
Target Audience: Academics working in Biomedical Informatics
Authors/presenters: John Ainsworth (UoM)
City, Country: Pisa, Italy
Description: Electronic Health Record (EHR) data has the potential to track patients’ journeys
through healthcare systems. Many of those journeys are supposed to follow Integrated Care
Pathways (ICPs) built on evidence based guidelines. An ICP for a particular condition sets out
“what should happen”, whereas the EHR records “what did happen”. Variance analysis is the
process by which the difference between expected and actual care is identified. By
performing variance analysis over multiple patients, patterns of deviation from idealised care
are revealed. The use of ICP variance analysis, however, is not as widespread as it could be in
healthcare quality improvement processes – we argue that this is due to the difficulty of
combining the required specialist knowledge
Type of activity: Conference
Title: Ontology-based convergence of medical terminologies: SNOMED CT and ICD 11
Conference: eHealth 2012 - Health Informatics meets eHealth
Date(s): 10 – 12 May 2012
Target audience: Scientists and implementers
Authors/presenters: Schulz, S (MUG); Rector, A; Rodrigues, JM (INSERM); Chute, C; Üstün, B
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(WHO); Spackman, K
City, Country: Vienna, Austria
Description: Health Informatics conference
Type of activity: Conference
Title: Towards the Harmonization of Clinical Information and Terminologies by Formal
Representation
Conference: 13th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC 2012). Science for Real
World Applications
Journal: European Journal for Biomedical Informatics (EJBI)
Date(s): 27 - 28 September 2012
Target audience: Scientists and implementers
Authors/presenters: Catalina Martínez-Costa, André Queiroz de Andrade, Daniel Karlsson,
Dipak Kalra, Stefan Schulz
City, Country: Vienna, Austria
Description: The IHIC is a forum for scientists and implementers to present and discuss
concepts, models and implementations for innovative interoperable e-Health solutions. The
conference provides an interface between science, research and real world.
Type of activity: Conference
Title: Semantic Interoperability for Health Network (SemanticHealthNet)
Conference: SNOMED CT Implementation Showcase 2012
Date(s): 25 – 26 October 2012
Target audience: Scientists and implementers. European projects session.
Authors/presenters: Catalina Martínez-Costa, Stefan Schulz
City, Country: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: Organised by IHTSDO, the Showcase allow attendees to interact with SNOMED
CT implementers from around the world who will share their first-hand knowledge about the
benefits, challenges and lessons learned from a variety of implementations.
Type of activity: Conference
Title: Competing Interpretations of Disorder Codes in SNOMED CT and ICD
Conference: AMIA 2012 Annual meeting
Date(s): 3 – 7 November 2012
Target audience: Scientists and implementers
Authors/presenters: Stefan Schulz; Alan Rector; Jean Marie Rodrigues; Kent Spackman
City, Country: Chicago, United States
Description: Health Informatics conference
Type of activity: Conference (submitted, not accepted yet)
Title: Isosemantic rendering of clinical information using formal ontologies and RDF
Conference: Medinfo 2013
Date(s): 20 – 23 August 2013
Target audience: Scientists and implementers
Authors/presenters: Catalina Martínez-Costa, Diego Bosca, Mari Carmen Legaz-García, Cui
Tao, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández Breis, Stefan Schulz, Christopher G. Chute
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City, Country: Copenhagen, Denmark
Description: World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
Type of activity: Journal (submitted, not accepted yet)
Title: The Ontology of Clinical Situations
Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
Authors/presenters: André Q Andrade, Catalina Martínez-Costa, Mathias Brochhausen, Kent
Spackman, Stefan Schulz
Description: AMIA's premier peer-reviewed journal for biomedical and health informatics.
Covering the full spectrum of activities in the field, JAMIA includes informatics articles in the
areas of clinical care, clinical research, translational science, implementation science,
imaging, education, consumer health, public health, and policy.
22nd June 2012
eHealth Business Modelling Workshop, organized by SHN jointly with epSOS, EHGI, ePractice,
EC
Target audience: eHealth stakeholders from policy, payers and industry
Contributors/presenters: Veli Stroetmann (empirica), Karl Stroetmann (empirica), Jörg
Artmann (empirica) and others
October 12th 2012
ePrescription interoperability workshop in Copenhagen: expert meeting to discuss
interoperability challenges on the semantic level regarding the exchange of medication
information across borders.
Contributors: Jörg Artmann
Target audience: national epSOS semantic experts
Nov 8, 2012
eHealth European Interoperability Framework Workshop 2 – Brussels, Belgium
Contribution on semantic interoperability aspects – Veli Stroetmann; Karl Stroetmann
Target audience: policy (EC), SDOs, eHealth experts, eHGI
6th March 2012
Workshop on Promoting engagement and partnerships for the Actions of the 'European
Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing'
Pre-conference event prior to the International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare 2012,
King’s Fund, London, UK
Contributor: Veli Stroetmann
Target audience: authorities representatives, researchers
20th April 2012
WS on integrated care with special focus on heart failure management, Brussels
Contributor: Veli Stroetmann
Target audience: autorities representatives, researchers, health professionals
24th of May 2012
Enables or inhibits government policy the implementation of eHealth? Are changes in the
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health system a prerequisite or a consequence of eHealth?Invited panel contribution at
Europe Meets Swiss eHealth Conference, Bern, Switzerland,
Contributor: Dr. Karl Stroetmann
Target audience: Swiss government and health IT decision makers
19th of June 2012
The need for a global Cyberinfrastructure
Invited key note at the Simulation in Cardiology Workshop, American College of Cardiology
(ACC), Washington, DC, USA, 19 June 2012
Contributor: Dr. Karl Stroetmann
Target audience: American College of Cardiology
Title: Business modelling for semantic interoperability Audience: Members of the epSOS Consortium, eHealth Industry, eHealth experts, European Commission Type of activity: workshop Name: ePractice.eu Workshop Date: 22-06-12, Brussels, Belgium Description: In the context of ongoing discussions around the Connecting Europe Facility, the
European Commission has held a stakeholder workshop on the long-term sustainability of its
eHealth pilot projects, see eHealth Business Modelling. Key to this sustainability is a
reflection on possible business models of eHealth projects beyond their pilot stage. The
workshop, supported by ePractice gathered stakeholders from the large scale pilot project
epSOS, SemanticHealthNet as well as other projects and representatives from the health
informatics standardization community, public policy and industry. After presentations on
the theory of business modeling and the ongoing sustainability discussion within epSOS, the
experts used an interactive business modeling appraoch to brainstorm and seek consensus
on important features of eHealth business models. SemanticHealthNet scientific coordinator,
Dipak Kalra (EuroRec) and empirica actively supported this workshop in its conceptual
preparation and execution. Results will feed into the deliverables of the SemanticHealthNet
project, to which empirica is a beneficiary. All workshop presentations are available through
the above eHealth Business Modelling website on ePractice.eu:
http://www.epractice.eu/node/5363901 The video that was taken during the eHealth
Business Modelling workshop is now available and may be accessed at
http://www.epractice.eu/en/tv/537694.
Convergence Round Table Basel, November 7, 2012
SemanticHealthNet participated in the Convergence Round Table organised by EuroRec (together with EHR4CR and SALUS) with the support of Roche (http://www.eurorec.org/ECprojects_convergenceRoundTable_Basel2012/). A limited number of projects addressing mainly “re-use of clinical care data in clinical research” were invited. Dipak Kalra has been nominated as lead for the Topic 1: Semantic Interoperability / Metadata / Glossaries. SemanticHealthNet, through EuroRec, will play the main role in organising the next workshop in collaboration with the European Commission (Benoît Abeloos), to be held in Brussels on the 20th and 21st of March 2013. More projects and delegates will be invited for this workshop. A report on this Convergence Round Table (Basel,
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November 7, 2012) is included as an annex to this report.
EU-US eHealth Marketplace On October 24 2012, during the EU-US eHealth Marketplace summit, Prof. Dipak Kalra elaborated on the SemanticHealthNet Project http://www.b2match.eu/eu-us-ehealth-marketplace/pages/agendas
Second Reporting Period
Date: 15 January 2013
Title (presentation): Standardising the representation of clinical information: for patient care
and for research
Event: Symposium - Mining electronic health records: towards better research applications
and clinical care (London, UK)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 17 March 2013
Title (presentation): The art of the possible
Event: Healthcare Computing 2013 (Birmingham,UK)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 20 March 2013
Title (presentation): Convergence on semantic interoperability
Event: Convergence workshop (EC, Brussels)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 16 April 2013
Title (presentation): A European Perspective on eHealth
Event: Launch conference for the Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research in
Manchester (Manchester, UK)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 23 April 2013
Title (presentation): Revision of the EN ISO 13606 EHR Communications standard
Event: ISO Technical Committee for Health Informatics (Mexico City, Mexico)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 13 May 2013
Title (presentation): A Convergence Initiative to maximise the value
from European research
Event: World of Health IT Congress (Dublin, Ireland)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 15 May 2013
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Title (presentation): Semantic interoperability
Event: World of Health IT Congress (Dublin, Ireland)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 24 June 2013
Title (presentation): EHR interoperability
Event: Invitation only workshop at the Ministry of Health (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 5 July 2013
Title (presentation): The vision for health ICT in 2030
Event: University celebration of Medical Informatics (Munster, Germany)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 8 July 2013
Title (presentation): Requirements for electronic health records
Event: Workshop on HL7 version 3 standards (Leeds, UK)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 9 July 2013
Title (presentation): Clinical Document Architecture
Event: Workshop on HL7 version 3 standards (Leeds, UK)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 21 August 2013
Title (presentation): Seamless re-use and Semantic Interoperability
Event: Medinfo 2013 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 22 August 2013
Title (presentation): Interoperability for person centred care
Event: Medinfo 2013 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 22 August 2013
Title (presentation): An interoperable heart failure summary:
transatlantic policy alignment and future sustainability
Event: Medinfo 2013 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 3 September 2013
Title (presentation): Interoperability in heart failure records
Event: European Society of Cardiology Annual Congress (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 6 September 2013
Title (presentation): Clinical perspectives on data quality
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Event: CPRD Workshop on data quality (London , UK)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 24 September 2013
Title (presentation): Opportunities, Challenges and Approaches to Scaling Up Person-
Centered Care
Event: AAL Forum Joint Programme (Norkopping, Sweden)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 24 October 2013
Title (presentation): Vendor adoption survey results for ISO EN 13606
Event: ISO Technical Committee for Health Informatics (Sydney, Australia)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 7 November 2013
Title (presentation): Promoting high quality electronic health records across Europe
Event : ISHEP 2013 conference (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 22 November 2013
Title (presentation): A sustainable European roadmap for semantic interoperability
Event: MIC Conference 2013 (Veldhoven, The Netherlands)
Contributor: Dipak Kalra (EuroRec)
Date: 2012
Title (article,): The Use of Metadata Objects in the Analysis and Representation of Clinical
Knowledge: Metadata and Semantics Research
Event/Journal/ Communications in Computer and Information Science
Contributor: P. Balatsoukas, R. Williams, E. Carruthers, J. Ainsworth, I. Buchan
Audience: Public domain
Date: 14th February 2013
Title (presentation): WP2: Prevention & Population Summaries
Event: SemanticHealthNet Review (Brussels
Contributor: Iain Buchan
Audience: Semantic HealthNet Colleagues
Date: 19th April 2013
Title (presentation): The IMIA initiatives on Trusthworthy Reuse of Health Data: a report
Event.2013 European Summit on Trustworthy Reuse of Health Data
Contributor: Iain Buchan
Audience: International Healthcare providers and academic health science organisations
Date: 20th-23rd August 2013
Title (presentation): The IMIA initiatives on Trusthworthy Reuse of Health Data: a report
Event/Journal: MEDINFO 2013
Contributor: Iain Buchan
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Audience: International academic and Industry Peers
Date: 20th-23rd August 2013
Title (presentation): Using Semantic Similarity to reduce Dimensionality
Event/Journal: MEDINFO 2013
Contributor: Iain Buchan
Audience: International academic and Industry Peers
Date: 20th-23rd August 2013
Title (presentation): e-Labs and the Stock of Health Method for Simulating Health Policies
Event/Journal/ MEDINFO 2013 & published in Stud Health Technol Inform
Contributor: Philip Couch
Audience: International academic and Industry Peers
Date: 20th-23rd August 2013
Title (presentation): Missed opportunities mapping: computable healthcare quality
improvement.
Event/Journal/MEDINFO 2013 & published in Stud Health Technol Inform
Contributor: Ben Brown
Audience: International academic and Industry Peers
Date: 30th September 2013
Title (presentation): Does the EU Benefit our Health
Event/Journal/…2020 Health Party Conference Fringe Event
Contributor: Iain Buchan
Audience: Policy Makers
Date: 17th October 2013
Title (presentation): Challenges and promises of big data for health research
Event/Journal/Keynote speaker at the Scoping Meeting of Science Europe’s Medical
Committee
Contributor: Iain Buchan
Audience: Policy Makers, academic and industry peers
Date: 23rd-24thMay 2013
Title (presentation): Big Data Panel
Event: Medicine 2.0
Contributor: Iain Buchan
Audience: Scientific community, industry, policy makers
Date: 23-24 May, 2013
Title (presention, article, …): Semantic Interoperability by ontology-based representation of
clinical information
Event/Journal/…: In Proceedings eHealth 2013 conference (Oral presentation)
http://www.ehealth20xx.at/eHealth2013/
Contributor: Martínez Costa C, Karlsson D, Schulz S
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Audience: Scientists and implementers
Date: 8-9 July, 2013
Title (presention, article, …): Ontology-based reinterpretation of the SNOMED CT context
model
Event/Journal/…: In Proceedings ICBO 2013 conference (Oral presentation) Best paper
award
http://www2.unb.ca/csas/data/ws/icbo2013/accepted.html
Contributor: Martínez Costa C, Schulz S
Audience: Scientists and implementers
Date: May,29-June,1, 2013
Title (presention, article, …): Ontology-based reinterpretation of the SNOMED CT context
model
Event/Journal/…: In Proceedings AIME 2013 conference (Poster) Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Volume 7885, 2013, pp 216-220, ISBN: 978-3-642-38325-0
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_32
Contributor: Martínez Costa C, Schulz S
Audience: Scientists and implementers
Date: June,1, 2013
Title (presention, article, …): How Ontologies Can Improve Semantic Interoperability in
Health Care
Event/Journal/…: In Proceedings KR4HC 2013 (Keynote) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 8268, 2013, pp 1-10
Contributor: Schulz S, Martínez Costa C
Audience: Scientists and implementers
Date: Aug,20-23,2013
Title (presention, article, …): Isosemantic rendering of clinical information using formal
ontologies and RDF
Event/Journal/…: In Proceedings MEDINFO 2013 conference (Poster). Stud Health Technol
Inform. 2013;192:1085.
Contributor: Martínez Costa C, Bosca D, Legaz-García MC, Tao C, Fernández-Breis JT, Schulz S,
Chute CG.
http://www.medinfo2013.dk/program/ios-proceedings
Audience: Scientists and implementers
Third Reporting Period
Nature of Communication
Title Responsible Participant
Date Location Target audience
1 Workshop Joint SHN meeting with Clinical Information Modelling Initiative (CIMI)
EuroRec, RAMIT 13th
– 15th
March 2014
Brussels Global health informatics experts and industry
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2 Liaison meeting CDISC Board meeting EuroRec 7th
April 2014
Paris Clinical research standards experts
3 Standards meeting CEN TC 251 meeting EuroRec 23rd
April 2014
London Standards developers across Europe
4 eHealth Conference
Semantic interoperability presentation at eHealth Week
EuroRec, empirica
12th
April 2014
Athens EU and US eHealth community
5 eHealth Conference
Heart failure summary presentation at eHealth Week
EuroRec 14th
April 2014
Athens Rare Disease registry community
6 Standards meeting ISO TC 215 meeting EuroRec 19th
– 22nd
May 2014
Karuizawa, Japan
International health informatics standards developers
7 Liaison meeting Joint meeting with CIMI chairman
EuroRec 20th
May 2014
Karuizawa, Japan
International health informatics standards developers
8 Seminar Semantic interoperability
EuroRec 23rd
May 2014
Kyoto, Japan
Health informatics academics and industry
9 Summer School EHR requirements, clinical modelling
EuroRec 14th
– 15th
July 2014
London HL7 developers, industry
10 Workshop Joint SHN meeting with CEN TC 251
EuroRec 4th
September 2014
Berlin Standards developers across Europe
11 Standards meeting ISO TC 215 EuroRec 5th
– 7th
September 2014
Berlin International health informatics standards developers
12 Workshop eHealth workforce strategy meeting
EuroRec 1st
December 2014
Brussels European experts on workforce skills, EC officials
13 Workshop Danish workshop on implementation of solutions in European health systems
EuroRec 9th
December 2014
Brussels eHealth and health experts across Europe, EC officials
14 Conference SHN Industry Forum EuroRec, RAMIT, many other SHN partners and experts
26th
– 27th
January 2015
Brussels Multiple stakeholders in eHealth across Europe
15 Conference Antilope handover conference
EuroRec 29th
January 2015
Gent Many EC project participants, EC officials
16 Conference Digital Health Assembly EuroRec 10th
– 12th
February 2015
Cardiff Health informatics and industry experts from across Europe
17 Standards meeting ISO TC 215 EuroRec 19th
– 23th
April 2014
San Francisco
International health informatics standards developers
18 Liaison meeting CDISC Board meeting EuroRec 30th
April 2015
Paris Clinical research standards experts
19 Conference The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data
EuroRec 12th
May 2015
Riga EU and US eHealth community
20 Workshop Parent guidelines workshop
EuroRec 19th
May 2015
Brussels Registry experts from across Europe
21 Workshop Electronic Health Record approaches as a core component of health interoperability environments
EuroRec 28th
May 2015
Madrid Health informatics experts from across Europe (MIE 2015)
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Nature of Communication
Title Responsible Participant
Date Location Target audience
22 Journal Article
Combining Health Data Uses to Ignite Health System Learning
Iain Buchan May 15 Journal: Meth Inform Med
23 Journal Article
Adoption of clinical decision support in multimorbidity: a systematic review
Iain Buchan Jan 2015 Journal: JMIR Med Inform
24 Journal Article
A review of the international Burn Injury Database (iBID) for England and Wales: descriptive analysis of burn injuries
Iain Buchan Feb 2015 Journal: BMJ
25 Journal Article
Investigating the relationship between quality of primary care and premature mortality in England: a spatial whole-population study
Iain Buchan March 2015 Journal: BMJ
26 Journal Breast cancer risk in young women in the national breast screening programme: implications for applying NICE guidelines for additional screening and chemoprevention
Iain Buchan October 2014 Journal: Cancer Prev Res
27 Journal Slowing down of adult body mass index trend increases in England: a latent class analysis of cross-sectional surveys (1992-2010).
Iain Buchan June 2014 Journal: Int J Obes (Lond)
28 Presentation/Article
Using String Metrics to Identify Patient Journeys through Care Pathways
Iain Buchan November 2014 AMIA Annu Symp Proc
29 Journal The impact of excess body weight at the hospital frontline
Iain Buchan April 2014 JournalBMC Med
30 Journal British Cardiovascular Intervention Society; National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research. Baseline bleeding risk and arterial access site practice in relation to procedural outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention
Iain Buchan October 2014 Journal: J Am Coll Cardiol
31 Journal British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research. Impact of age on the prognostic value of left ventricular function in relation to procedural outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from the British cardiovascular intervention society
Iain Buchan May 2015 Journal: Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
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32 Journal Calculating when elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair improves survival for individual patients: development of the Aneurysm Repair Decision Aid and economic evaluation
Iain Buchan April 2015 Journal: Health Technol Assess
33 Journal Quantifying the contribution of statins to the decline in population mean cholesterol by socioeconomic group in England 1991 - 2012: a modelling study.
Iain Buchan April Journal: PLoS One
34 Presentation Enriching and sustaining semantic interoperability across Europe
Veli Stroetmann
12 May 2014 Athens, EuroRec workshop, eHealth Forum 2014
Policy makers, scientific community, national and regional eHealth strategists and implementers
35 Presentation Cost benefit assessment for investments in interoperable HF representations At SHN session “Towards interoperable electronic health record”
Veli Stroetmann
31 Oct 2014 eCardiology Congress, Bern
Clinicians, researchers, eHealth / telemedicine experts
36 Presentation Sustaining the European Efforts towards Semantic, Human, Health System Interoperability
Veli Stroetmann
29 May 2015 MIE2015, Medical Informatics Europe conference, Madrid
Bio-medical informatics community
37 Book chapter
The eHealth Contribution to Person-Centred Care
D Kalra, V Stroetmann
2014 In: Managing eHealth: From Vision to Reality. Edited By Magdalene Rosenmöller, Diane Whitehouse and Petra Wilson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 174-189
Policy makers, scientific community, national and regional eHealth strategists and implementers
38 Paper Health System Efficiency and eHealth Interoperability – How Much Interoperability do we Need?
Karl A Stroetmann
2014 In: A. Roca et al. (ed.) New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing – Volume 276, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014
ICT researchers
39 Workshop Paper
Human aspects of eHealth Interoperability in the Transatlantic Setting
C. Chronaki, V Stroetmann
2015 MIE2015 Proceedings (forthcoming)
Bio-medical informatics community
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Nature of Communication Title Responsible Participant
Date Location Target audience
40 Conference (Oral communication) & Journal eHealth 2014, Applied Clinical Informatics, 2014, 5(3):660-669
Ontology Content Patterns as Bridge for the Semantic Representation of Clinical Information
Martínez-Costa, C; Schulz, S.
22-23 May 2014
Vienna, Austria
Scientists and Implementers
41 Conference (Oral communication) MIE 2014
Improving EHR Semantic Interoperability: Future Vision and Challenges.
Martínez-Costa, C; Kalra, D; Schulz, S
31-03 Sept 2014
Istanbul, Turkey
Scientists and Implementers
42 Conference (Oral communication) MIE 2014 Workshop on Interoperability Challenges for enabling secondary use of Electronic Health Records
Semantic Interoperability in SemanticHealthNet
Martínez-Costa, C; Schulz, S.
02 Sept 2014
Istanbul, Turkey
Scientists and Implementers
43 Conference (Oral communication) MIE 2014
Ontology patterns-based transformation of clinical information.
Legaz-García, M.C.;Martínez-Costa, C; Miñarro-Giménez, J.A.;Fernández-Breis,J.T.;Schulz, S; Menárguez-Tortosa, M.
31-03 Sept 2014
Istanbul, Turkey
Scientists and Implementers
44 Conference (Poster and Oral communication) WOP 2014
Ontology Patterns for Clinical Information Modelling
Martínez-Costa, C; Karlsson, D; Schulz, S.
19 Oct 2014
Riva del Garda, Italy
Scientists and Implementers
45 Conference (Poster) OWLED 2014
An example of approximating DL reasoning by ontology-aware RDF querying
Martínez-Costa, C; Schulz, S.
17-18 Oct 2014
Riva del Garda, Italy
Scientists and Implementers
46 Conference (Oral communication) SNOMED CT Implementation Showcase. 2014
SemanticHealthNet. A Semantic Infrastructure Towards Semantic Interoperability
Martínez-Costa,C; Schulz, S; Kalra, D.
30 Oct, 2014
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Scientists and Implementers
47 Conference (Oral communication) FOIS 2014
An Ontological Analysis of Reference in Health Record Statements
Schulz, S; Martínez-Costa, C; Karlsson, D; Cornet, R; Brochhausen, M; Rector, A.
22-25 Sept, 2014
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Scientists and Implementers
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48 Journal paper Semantic enrichment of clinical models towards semantic interoperability. The heart failure summary use case
Martínez-Costa, C; Cornet, R; Karlsson, D; Schulz, S; Kalra, D
February 2015
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, ocu013
Scientists and Implementers
3.3 SHN Videos
Perspective of Standards Development Organisations
Catherine Chronaki
Health ITC industry perspective
Tomaz Gornik
Luc Maes
Miroslav Koncar
Patient viewpoint
Paul Rastall
Clinical viewpoint
Bob Vander Stichele
Suzanne Hardman
Multi stakeholder perspective
Zoi Kolikski
Marc Lange
Annike Sonne Hansen
Clinical research and pharma and EMIF
Bart Vannieuwenhuyse
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Ministry viewpoint
Jeremy Thorp
The EHR4CR network: role of the governing institute (Dipak Kalra)
Industry Forum on Semantic Interoperability January 26th – 27th , 2015, Brussels
3.4 i~HD
One of the main results is the establishment of a new institute: the European Institute for
Innovation through Health Data (i~HD). This is the result of a close collaboration with the IMI-JU
funded project EHR4CR (Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research).
More details about i~HD are given in chapter 5 of this report.
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4 Plan for dissemination
4.1 Communication Matrix
The matrix as defined in D9.2 and adapted at the end of the project remains an important part of the
methodology for dissemination. The matrix is a representation of how communication between the
consortium and the stakeholders may be used after the project life time.
Stakeholders Communication Vehicle
Message Objective Responsible partner
Standards Development Organisations (SDO)
Website & Social media; SDO partners; SDOs network; EuroRec; Related ongoing EU projects (see chapter 5); i~HD (see chapter 5).
Awareness of SHN and its results; requirements for semantic interoperability, critique of existing standards
Next generation standards provide better support for semantic interoperability, and work better together (e.g. structural and terminology standards)
SDO partners EuroRec All partners
Clinical knowledge curators
Website & Social media; Clinical partners; EuroRec; Related ongoing EU projects (see chapter 5); i~HD (see chapter 5).
Awareness of SHN and its results; sources of existing development and curation practice
Definition and dissemination of international best practice in knowledge authorship and curation
Clinical partners EuroRec All partners
Industry, Vendors
Website & Social media; COCIR; EuroRec; Related ongoing EU projects (see chapter 5); i~HD (see chapter 5).
Awareness of SHN and its results;
To understand the existing approaches to meeting user driven semantic requirements, their needs for semantic assets and infostructures; practical implementation issues and business justifications for investments in supporting semantic interoperability
COCIR EuroRec All partners
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Insurers
Website & Social media; Related ongoing EU projects (see chapter 5); i~HD (see chapter 5).
Awareness of SHN and its results
To understand the importance they place on interoperability and learning of their initiatives to incentivise interoperability investments (e.g. new reimbursement models)
All partners
Ministries of health / Policy actors / Government agencies
Website & Social media; Related ongoing EU projects (see chapter 5); i~HD (see chapter 5).
Awareness of SHN and its results; understand drivers, priorities and incentives for interoperability, commitment to standards
To understand and helpfully influence: drivers, priorities and incentives for interoperability; commitment to standards; funding streams for clinical engagement; innovative healthcare service and financing models that promote interoperability
Empirica EuroRec All partners
Professional organisations
Website & Social media; Professional networks; Related ongoing EU projects (see chapter 5); i~HD (see chapter 5).
Awareness of SHN and its results; clinical priorities for interoperability, present barriers, importance of their engagement; collect existing clinical data sets etc.
To help co-define semantic interoperability priorities; to validate good practice in authorship and quality assurance; to foster clinical communities to engage in the development of semantic assets; to co-develop educational resources for clinicians
Empirica EuroRec All partners
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Patient organisations
Website & Social media; Patient organisations; Related ongoing EU projects (see chapter 5); i~HD (see chapter 5).
Awareness of SHN and its results; To begin to explore semantic needs for patients to understand and contribute to their EHRs
To ensure that semantic assets and good practice methods developed by SHN are suitable to support the expansion of patient engagement in health care and wellness; to explore the extent to which PHR and EHR semantics can be aligned
All partners
Academics
Website & Social media; Related ongoing EU projects (see chapter 5); i~HD (see chapter 5).
Awareness of SHN and its results
To identify future research needs, to co-develop educational resources
All academic consortium partners
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4.2 Website and social media
Website
URL: http://www.semantichealthnet.eu/
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SemanticHealthNet YouTube Channel
4.3 Events and partners’ networks
Partners will continue to disseminate the results of the projects through future domain related
workshops and conferences. At the end of 2015 a conference will take place to promote the
establishment of the i~HD Institute and its Centre of Excellences (CoE).
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5 Exploitation of results
SemanticHealthNet is a Network of Excellence on semantic interoperability. One of its core functions has therefore been to interface with many other projects, initiatives and organisations to promote the importance of semantic interoperability, to discover and to share emergent best practices and to provide advice where needed to other European endeavours. A second important function has been to explore options for how best to sustain the Network and expand on its work after this funded period. SHN has established relationships with many other European R & D projects, including the following non-exhaustive list: EXPAND on the quality processes for the development of semantic interoperability assets, and the criteria by which the quality of an asset may be assessed;
TRILLIUM BRIDGE on areas of future standardisation that would be needed to develop an international patient summary standard and to scale up its adoption;
ANTILOPE on the semantic interoperability aspects of its use cases;
PARENT through being a member of its external stakeholders advisory board, learning about the interoperability challenges and opportunities for registries, developing specific clinical models for example areas of registry content, and offering a sustainability avenue for some of its endpoint assets;
EHR4CR by understanding its approaches to interfacing eHealth and clinical research standards, and its experience and methodologies for business modelling and use of the business modelling canvas; Dipak Kalra was invited to join the board of CDISC in order to promote and advise on the interfacing between clinical research and healthcare semantic standards;
TRANSFoRM in relation to the sustainability of its semantic interoperability assets, and as an invited member of its advisory board;
SALUS in relation to its metadata registry, the sustainability of this, and as a member of its advisory board. Although most of these projects are coming to a close, by linking our network to these consortia we have help to ensure that the importance of semantic interoperability, the approaches adopted in the project and the lessons learned, our disseminated through these other partners into new projects and initiatives. For example, SHN experts were invited to join all four successful consortia in the recent PHC-34 call on interoperability.
1. To co-ordinate VALUeEHALTH and in particular to advance the business modelling methodology developed in SHN WP7 and to apply this to new prioritised use cases.
2. In eStandards to lead the development of good practice guidelines for semantic interoperability assets such as clinical models, to contribute to the roadmap for future standardisation and to co-ordinate the engagement of external stakeholders.
3. In ASSESS CT to be its co-lead, to lead WPs on the content coverage of SNOMED CT and on the development of the final policy recommendations, and to contribute the SHN heart failure summary into the empirical terminology evaluations.
4. To co-ordinate openMedicine.
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At a European strategic level SHN has contributed to the transatlantic co-operation roadmap, attending meetings and teleconferences, presenting at events (e.g. in Boston) and helping with successive drafts of the roadmap document itself. SHN provided specific written input to the drafting of the eHealth EIF, as well as attending consultation meetings organised by the EC and Deloitte during its development. SHN met regularly with representatives from the eHealth Governance Initiative, and was occasionally invited to present at its meetings. SHN experts were unofficially invited to critique drafts of various strategy documents on semantic interoperability. In support of future European and international standardisation, SHN experts have contributed as experts in the revision of the EN ISO 13606 standard for electronic health record communication. This input has focused on the requirements and model for communicating archetypes, design guidance and practical examples of reference archetypes for key areas of semantics. SHN held a specific joint workshop with CEN on the 13606 revision, and provided regular input to a CEN Concurrent Use initiative on the aligned use of a portfolio of European standards. SHN hosted a joint meeting with the international clinical information modelling initiative (CIMI) in Brussels, in 2014, with global representation. SHN experts have continued to provide input to that initiative since that meeting. SHN has throughout engaged with clinicians, and participated in events organised by the eHealth group of the European Society of Cardiology. It has engaged with industry - selected SMEs and larger EHR system vendors, and with COCIR and its members (as reported in D6.1). Other stakeholders have been invited to our Task Forces, workshops and other events including representatives from health ministries, health insurers and patient representatives. It has held specific engagement events with clinicians (through the European Society of Cardiology), patient representatives (through patient networks of the UK Royal College of Physicians) and industry (through COCIR), as reported in Deliverables 1.3, 3.3, 6.1 respectively. Since the consortium itself comprises many international Standards Development Organisations, inevitably the project network has included these organisations, usually globally. Through the project work plan these organisations have gained a better understanding of the importance to end users and therefore to industry that multiple standards developed by different SDOs can work together and be adopted in combination. This message is penetrating back into these organisations and a greater willingness to collaborate on future standards alignment is emerging. EuroRec is reviewing the quality processes for interoperability assets defined in Deliverables 3.2, 3.3, 5.1 and 5.2, and will extract semantic interoperability quality criteria that could in future be incorporated within its quality labelling process for EHR systems. Overall, SHN has been successful at raising the visibility and perceived importance of tackling semantic interoperability in order to enable the meaningful sharing of health data, and of deriving value from interpreting accurately the data that have been meaningfully shared. Semantic interoperability is now a recognised priority area across many stakeholder groups and initiatives, and many of the SHN network experts have become involved in multiple new projects and organisations that will benefit from and extend the learning. However, although much has been achieved so much remains to be done, that the project has joined forces with other European projects to establish a new European not-for-profit Institute as the permanent approach to its sustainability: the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD). This new Institute has emerged as the most appropriate and welcomed solution to the challenges of sustaining the momentum and community developing solutions for semantic
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interoperability. Multiple stakeholders from across Europe were involved in workshops and business modelling sessions in order to arrive at this conclusion. i~HD will initially focus its efforts on developing further semantic interoperability resources through an Alliance of relevant stakeholders and experts (including SDOs and industry), establishing a register of interoperability assets and developing an evidence base of benefits from richer interoperability. More details of the i~HD structure and intended work plan activities is given in D8.1.