A Collaborative Space for Healthcare Interoperability
The 2025 IHE North America Plugathon, will be held during the latter half of the IHE North America Connectathon Week in Toronto from February 5th to 7th, 2025 following the Experience Days. The Plugathon provides a unique opportunity for healthcare professionals, vendors, and experts to collaborate and advance interoperability in the field. Building upon the successful model of the IHE-Europe Plugathon 2024, this event focuses on fostering innovation and knowledge sharing through educational, interactive workshops and testing sessions.
The Plugathon, a less formal counterpart to the rigorous Connectathon testing, encourages open exploration of emerging technologies and IHE profiles. The event is structured around dedicated tracks that cater to specific areas of interest, offering participants a platform to:
- Learn: Gain insights into emerging IHE profiles, particularly those based on the HL7 FHIR® standard, and explore their practical applications.
- Share: Exchange experiences and challenges encountered during the implementation of IHE profiles with peers and domain experts.
- Test: Evaluate preliminary prototypes in a controlled environment, leveraging tools like Gazelle simulators and validators, with support from experienced mentors.
- Shape: Contribute to the evolution of IHE profiles by providing feedback on existing implementations and identifying potential areas for improvement or new profile development.
The Plugathon format fosters a dynamic exchange of ideas and knowledge, bridging the gap between user needs, vendor solutions, existing standards and harvesting industry innovations.
Toronto 2025 Plugathon Tracks
Emerging IHE Profiles: Explore the latest advancements in IHE interoperability standards and actively contribute to shaping the future of healthcare information exchange.
Patient-Mediated Access and Verifiable Health Links via IPS: 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.
Canadian Interoperability: Advancing the Pan-Canadian Shared Interoperability Roadmap: 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 standards. Your expertise will directly influence the future of healthcare interoperability in Canada.
Taming AI with IHE Profiles: 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.
Trust Frameworks and IHE as their Technical Enablers: 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.
Questions?
We are glad to assist you. Please contact IHE USA at Connectathon@ihe.net.