epSOS Projectathon determines next steps
- 8 December 2010
An epSOS Projectathon held in Slovakia to test whether the interoperability of different countries’ healthcare systems meet epSOS specifications concluded that 10 pilot sites can begin sharing real patient data from early next year.
epSOS, the large scale European pilot of patient summary and electronic prescription, held the four day Projectathon to test content documents, such as patient summaries and e-prescription exchanges.
It also allowed national developers and testers to share knowledge and experience and addressed issues such as improving security, semantic interoperability, and avoiding other real patient safety issues.
In addition it saw nine countries – Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Sweden and Slovakia – successfully test cross-border patient data exchange.
epSOS has now announced that the pilot sites will start sending and receiving patient data and eprescriptions in early 2011 for a 12 month period.
More than 30,000 health professionals will be involved in the pilots in 183 hospitals, 2149 pharmacies and 1113 GP practices.
An additional Projectathon will be held in Italy in April 2011 in conjunction with the IHE Connectathon which will address how the gradual inclusion of member states will t6ake place as part of the large scale pilot.
Link: epSOS
