IHE North America Plugathon 2025

Day 1

Track 1:

Emerging IHE Profiles

Track 2: 

IPS & Patient-Mediated Access

Track 3:

Advancing the Pan-Canadian Shared Interoperability

Track 4: 

Taming AI with IHE Profiles

Track 5: 

Trust Frameworks and IHE as their Technical Enabler:

The Emerging Profiles track is highlighting and testing new and newly published Profiles for IT Infrastructure, Devices and Imaging. Participants will collaborate with us to help clarify, refine and gain adoption of these profiles in future implementations. 

Discover how IPS empowers patients with control over their health data and enables secure information exchange, while contributing your insights to the evolution of this critical standard.

Collaborate with Canadian architects and standards experts to develop standards addressing key national interoperability challenges, with the potential for these profiles to evolve into international specifications. Your expertise will directly influence the future of healthcare interoperability in Canada. 

Pan-Canadian Patient Summary (PS-CA) will be incorporated into the IPS Track.

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Participate in shaping the future of AI interoperability in healthcare by exploring how IHE profiles can be used to standardize and improve AI integration. Contribute your expertise to the development of robust standards that ensure patient safety, effective caregiver experience, and responsible AI implementation.

Understand the crucial role of IHE profiles in establishing trusted health information exchange within broader trust frameworks, enhancing security and reliability. Contribute to the ongoing development of these frameworks and help shape the future of secure health information exchange.

8:30 - 10:00 am

SDPi Gemini project introduction

Speaker: 

• Todd Cooper

8:30 - 9:00 

Welcome to the IPS & Patient-Mediated Access Track

Speaker: 

• Allana Cameron, Senior Product Manager (PS-CA), Canada Health Infoway and Track Lead

9:00 - 10:00

IPS: Patient-Mediated Access and Verifiable Health Links

Speakers: 

• Carl Leitner, Technical Officer, WHO 
• Monief Eid, Enterprise Imaging & eHealth Senior Consultant

8:30 - 9:15

Pan-Canadian Digital Health Interoperability Roadmap Highlights and Insights

Speaker: 

• Andrew Liu, Senior Director, Architecture & Development, Canada Health Infoway

9:15 - 9:45

CA Core+ Overview

Speakers: 

• Ken Sinn, Senior Standards Specialist, Canada Health Infoway
• Vineeth Sekharan, Senior Business Analyst, Canada Health Infoway

8:30 - 10:00 

AI in Medical Imaging 

Intro to AI in Imaging 

• White paper
• AIR
• AIW-I
• IRA 
• AIRAI

Speakers:

• Kevin O’Donnell, Sr. R&D Mgr at Canon Medical Research
• Kinson Ho, Engineer, Tempus
• Antje Schroeder, Manager Healthcare IT Standards, Siemens Healthineers

8:30 - 10:00 

Framing the problem:

Introduction and Discovery

Speaker: 

• Attila Farkas, Canada Health Infoway

Break

10:30 - 12:00

SDPi project Testing

(Work Session)

10:30 - 12:00 

Joint Session:  IPS will join Track 5 - Trust Frameworks and IHE as their Technical Enabler

10:30 - 12:00

CA Core+: Testing Prep + Systems Testing

Speakers: 

• Ken Sinn, Senior Standards Specialist, Canada Health Infoway
• Vineeth Sekharan, Senior Business Analyst, Canada Health Infoway

10:30 - 12:00 

AI in Medical Imaging

• What/where are the pain points? (Group Discussion)
• Talking about the problems
• Explore potential ways to address

Speaker:

• Kevin O’Donnell, Sr. R&D Mgr at Canon Medical Research

10:30 - 12:00

Lived Experiences: Building Trust into Shareable Health Links: Next Steps in Verifiable Health Links

• Workshop

Speakers: 

• Carl Leitner, WHO - GDHCN
• David Pyke/Didi Davis, ONC / TEFCA

(Joint Session with IPS)

Lunch

1:30 - 3:00

Intro to Scheduling for Mobile

Speaker: 

• Matt Blackmon, Standards and Conformance Testing Programs Manager, The Sequoia Project 

1:30 - 3:00 

International Insights: Successful IPS Deployments, including presentations from around the globe 

1:30 - 2:00

Patient-mediated Access in New Brunswick, Canada 

Speaker: 

• Pat Kerry, Chief Technology Officer, VeroSource Solutions

2:00 - 3:00

Patient-mediated Access in Brazil and Overview of LACPass 

Speakers: 

• Blanda Helena de Mello, Interoperability Technical Consultant. DATASUS 
• Carlos Núñez, Regional Technical Coordinator, RACSEL

1:30 - 3:00

CA Core+: Gap Analysis and Next Steps

Speakers: 

• Ken Sinn, Senior Standards Specialist, Canada Health Infoway
• Vineeth Sekharan, Senior Business Analyst, Canada Health Infoway

(Pan-Canadian Patient Summary Demo will occur in IPS track)

1:30 - 3:00

Using AI for Imaging – Tooling

• NVIDIA NIMS Introduction
• Group Workshop

Speaker:

• Brad Genereaux, Global Lead Healthcare Alliances @ NVIDIA

1:30 - 3:00 

Lived experiences

• Health Canada/Infoway
• EU

Speakers: 

• Toni Darouze, Health Canada 
• TBC, Canada Health Infoway
• Alexander Berler,
  Jürgen Brandstätter

Break

3:30 - 5:00

Intro to Finance & Insurance

Speaker: 

• Matt Blackmon, Standards and Conformance Testing Programs Manager, The Sequoia Project

3:30 - 4:15

Enhancing IPS Data Quality: Automated Extraction and Standardization of Clinical Concepts

Speakers: 

• Martin Persaud, Director, AI & Technology Transformation, Verto Health 
• Ivana Marzura, Vice President, Product, Verto Health

4:15 - 5:00

From Experience to Improvement: Patient and Provider Insights on Sharing Health Data

Speakers: 

• Anne Baldwin, Director, Change Management & Adoption, Canada Health Infoway (Moderator)
• Dr. Paula Voorheis, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Science of Care Institute, Sinai Health System
• Lillian Ly, Executive Director, Programs & Chief Digital Information Officer, eHealth Saskatchewan
• Bobby Gheorghiu, Senior Director, Research and Analytics • Performance, Canada Health Infoway

3:30 - 5:00

CA:FeX: Crafting Regulated APIs

Speaker: 

• Edmond Chiu, Senior Software Developer, Canada Health Infoway

3:30 - 5:00 

Using AI for Imaging – Tooling 

• Group Workshop

Speaker: 

• Brad Genereaux - Global Lead Healthcare Alliances @ NVIDIA

3:30 - 5:00

Lived experiences

• South America
• Australia
• Middle East
   

Speakers: 

• Carlos Núñez, Regional Technical Coordinator, RACSEL
• Ryan Mavin, Executive Branch Manager Connected Care, Australian Digital Health Agency
• Monief Eid, eHealth and Enterprise Imaging Senior Consultant at Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia

DAY 2

Track 1: 

Emerging IHE Profiles

Track 2: 

IPS & Patient-Mediated Access

Track 3:

Advancing the Pan-Canadian Shared Interoperability

Track 4: 

Taming AI with IHE Profiles

Track 5: 

Trust Frameworks and IHE as their Technical Enabler:

8:30 - 10:00

SDPi Gemini project testing

Intro to DSUBm 

(Work Session)

8:30 - 9:15

Future-Proofing IPS: Innovations and Emerging Standards

Speaker: 

• Grahame Grieve, FHIR Product Director at HL7®

9:15 - 10:00

Connected Care: Understanding IPS and Its Impact on Overlapping Use Cases

Speakers:

• Allana Cameron, Senior Product Manager, Canada Health Infoway (Moderator)
• Alexander Berler, Strategic Business Development Director, IHE Catalyst
• Shannon O’Connor, Manager, Data Standards, CIHI
• Jürgen Brandstätter, Consultant to Austrian Ministry of Health / GDHP

8:30 - 10:00

CA:eReC & CA:CSD: Data Management and Querying

Speakers: 

• Mark Fernandes, Senior Business Analyst, Canada Health Infoway
• David Cumming, Senior Manager - Interoperability Product Development, Canada Health Infoway

8:30 - 10:00

AI Result Approval for Imaging 

• Intro to AIRAI 
• IHE Profile Approach

Speaker: 

• Antje Schroeder, Manager Healthcare IT Standards, Siemens Healthineers

8:30 - 10:00

Summary of learnings

Define realistic scope and components [Technical Standards, digital ID and federation, digital signatures, Governance]

Participant Workshop 

Break

10:30 - 12:00

Intro to DSG JSON

Speaker: 

• Matt Blackmon, Standards and Conformance Testing Programs Manager, The Sequoia Project

10:30 - 12:00 

Innovate with IPS Toolsets: A Hands-On Approach

Speaker: 

• Souleymane THIAM, Project Manager & Gazelle Test Session Manager, Kereval

10:30-11:30

CA:FeX:  Exploring Gaps and Alternatives 

Speakers: 

• Edmond Chiu, Senior Software Developer, Canada Health Infoway 
• Thomas Schroecker, CEO, Venuiti Solutions Inc. & Jordan Schroecker, Director, Venuiti Solutions Inc.

11:30 - 12:00

CA:SHL: Roadmapping the Future

Speakers: 

• Magdolna Holitska, Solutions Architect, Canada Health Infoway
• David Cumming, Senior Manager - Interoperability Product Development, Canada Health Infoway

10:30 - 12:00 

AI Result Approval for Imaging (AIRAI)-

  Intro to AIRAI 

• IHE Profile Approach
• Profile Development Open Issues 
• Gap Identification
• Next Steps

Speaker: 

• Antje Schroeder, Manager Healthcare IT Standards, Siemens Healthineers

10:30 - 12:00

Defining the End State for Phase1:

• what would be a good test model look like: for IPS or something else like vaccine certificates
• What are the required capabilities in the Ecosystem

Participant Workshop

Lunch

1:30 - 3:00

Introduction to IHE IMR and IHE IDR

Speakers:

• Kevin O’Donnell - Sr. R&D Mgr at Canon Medical Research
• Kinson Ho - Engineer, Tempus

1:30 - 3:00

Joint Session: IPS will join Track 4 - Taming AI with IHE Profiles 

1:30 - 3:00

HALO: Business & Technical

Speakers: 

• Alex Reis, Director, Digital Health Interoperability Portfolio, Canada Health Infoway
• Dennis Cabel, Application Architect, Provincial Health Services Authority, British Columbia
• Daniel Thamotharem,  Senior Manager, Ontario Health

1:30 - 3:00

AI Assisted Data Capture and Legacy Data Processing 

1:30-1:45

How Standards Enable Data Aggregation 

Speaker:

• Alex Goel, CEO Topology Health

1:45-2:30

Registry Operations and Current Workflow

Speakers: 

• George Curtis
• Tim Davison
• Scott Wood (California Department of Public Health)

2:30 - 2:40

Use Case: Query-Based Registry Workflows

Speaker: 

• Alex Goel, CEO Topology Health
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2:40 - 3:00

Leveraging LLMs in Registry Use Cases (20 Mins)

Speaker: 

• Alex Goel - CEO Topology Health

(Joint Session with IPS)

1:30 - 3:00

Defining Volume 1 potential use case

• Policy actors
• Technical actors

Participant Workshop

Break

3:30 - 5:00

Introduction to AIRAI - IHE Profile in development

• How can we make use of FHIR resources? 
• Next steps - IDR and insertion into IRA and IMR?

Speaker:

• Antje Schroeder - Manager Healthcare IT Standards, Siemens Healthineers

3:30 - 5:00

Joint Session: IPS will join Track 4 - Taming AI with IHE Profiles 

3:30 - 5:00

CA:eReC: Roadmapping the Future

Speakers: 

• Mark Fernandes,Senior Business Analyst,  Canada Health Infoway
• Russell Buchanan, Director, Architecture & Standards, eHealth Centre of Excellence

3:30 - 5:00

AI Assisted Data Capture and Legacy Data Processing

Speaker: 

• Alex Goel, - CEO Topology Health

3:30 - 3:50

Impact of LLMs, Trust Frameworks and Patient Summaries on Privacy

Speaker: 

• Alex Goel, - CEO Topology Health

3:50 - 4:30

Prompting: Examples and Techniques with Demo from HHS/Create

Speaker: 

• Jeremy Petch,  Director of Digital Health Innovation at Hamilton Health Sciences
• Colin Kent-Shepherd -Software Architect at Hamilton Health Sciences 

4:30 - 5:00

Practical Applications and Next Steps (30 min)

Speaker: 

• Alex Goel, - CEO Topology Health 

(Joint Session with IPS)

3:30 - 5:00

Relation with existing IHE concepts [such as XCA, ATNA, etc.]

• [endpoint libraries]
• Next steps

Participant Workshop

Day 3

Track 1: 

Emerging IHE Profiles

Track 2: 

IPS & Patient-Mediated Access

Track 3:

Advancing the Pan-Canadian Shared Interoperability

Track 4: 

Taming AI with IHE Profiles

Track 5: 

Trust Frameworks and IHE as their Technical Enabler

8:30 - 10:00

The Future of FHIR: Challenges, Profiling and IHE

Speaker: 

• Grahame Grieve, FHIR Product Director at HL7®

8:30 - 9:15

Future Directions in IPS: Identifying Key Priorities and Next Steps

Speaker: 

• John D’Amore, President More Informatics, Inc. / GDHP

9:15-10:00

Addressing IPS Stewardship Across the Global Community:

A Conversation Launched by the JIC in Its Paper “The Future of IPS as a Global Public Good”

Speaker: 

• Michael Nusbaum, President at MH Nusbaum & Associates Ltd. / IHE Intl Board

8:30-10:00

British Columbia HALO implementation featuring Patient Summary

Speaker: 

• Dennis Cabel, Application Architect, Provincial Health Services Authority, British Columbia

8:30 - 10:00

IMR and IRA demonstrations – Workshop with FHIRCAST

Speaker:

• Kinson Ho - Engineer, Tempus

8:30 - 10:00

Hands on testing with what exists and what else needs to be built:

FAST Security IG Testing

Speaker: 

• David Pyke,   Standards Architect and Interoperability Consultant

Break

Working Session

10:30 - 12:00

IPS & Patient-Mediated Access Track Wrap-Up: 

IPS Round-Table Discussion

Round Table

10:30 -11:15

Final Recap

Speaker: 

• Andrew Liu, Senior Director, Architecture & Development Canada Health Infoway

10:30 - 12:00 

IMR and IRA demonstrations – Workshop with FHIRCAST 

Speaker:

• Kinson Ho - Engineer, Tempus

• Workshop
• Impact of XCA-i.b Public Comment (Cross Enterprise DICOMweb retrieval)

10:30 - 12:00 

FAST Security IG Testing
WHO GDHCN (Demo) / LACPASS

Speakers: 

• Carlos Núñez, Regional Technical Coordinator, RACSEL
• Monief Eid, eHealth and Enterprise Imaging Senior Consultant at Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia

Lunch (Boxed for Takeaway)