EPD-Projectathon

Digital Health Projectathon 2025

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This year, the Digital Health Projectathon (formerly known as the EPR Projectathon) will take place from the 15th to the 19th of September 2025 at the Eventforum in Bern. As usual, the relevant technical profiles for the
Electronic Patient Record (EPR) will be available for testing. Interested providers will also be able to practice reporting communicable diseases to the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). In addition, the future AGOV authority login service (authentication service for Swiss authorities) will be available for testing at the event. This is being organised by eHealth Suisse together with the Federal Chancellery. The aim is to enable EPR communities and their technical providers to test patient and healthcare professional access to the EPR based on a simulation (beta ID) of the new national electronic identity, the Swiss eID, and AGOV.

More information will be made available in May 2025.

Lien externe : More information on DigiSanté

Lien externe : Reporting communicable diseases with CH-ELM

Lien externe : More information on the national e-ID

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Photo credits: Raphaël Schaller, Lien externe : raphaelphoto.ch

The EPR Projectathon ...

... is an interoperability and conformity test marathon, similar to the IHE-Connectathon:

For five days, participants can test their own products live on site for interoperability and, if necessary, adapt them to the findings during the event. The EPR reference environment and the test descriptions are available in advance.

... is a practical test for the EPR implementation:

The results of tests with other participants, the central services of the Confederation and the EPR reference environment provide indications of one's own status with regard to EPR interoperability. Peer-to-peer tests and peer-to-reference environment tests show the interaction of the IT components. Group tests simulate use cases from the EPR, for example the opening of an EPR, rights management or cross-community queries.

... does not replace the certification of EPR communities:

The tests around EPR interoperability are voluntary and non-binding for all participants. The EPR Projectathon is an efficient tool, but not a guarantee for a successful certification.

...is not an IHE-Europe Connectathon:

The EPR Projectathon focuses on EPR-specific configurations and clarifications of the IHE profiles - not on the underlying IHE standard profiles. These can be tested at the IHE-Europe Connectathon. At the EPR Projectathon, the simulators of the EPR Reference Environment are available for such basic tests. Unlike the IHE-Europe Connectathon, no test results will be published.

Lien interne : More information about the EPR-Projectathon

Lien interne : More information on the preparation steps

Lien externe : More information about the IHE-Europe Connectathon