- a refinement of the eHealth European Interoperability Framework,
- recommendations for quality management in interoperability testing,
- an overview of eHealth interoperability testing tools, and
- a description of relevant quality label or certification processes.
These documents have been reviewed, vetted and validated in the course of 2014 by national and international experts, stakeholders and policymakers in numerous consultations, discussions and ten regional workshops all over Europe. They are available at www.antilope-project.eu.
"eHealth interoperability is improving but remains a challenge, and we have found that policymakers and decision makers in the Member States and regions often do not realise the benefits of consistent technical and semantic standards and profiles," says Karima Bourquard, Technical Coordinator of the Antilope project and Director of Interoperability at IHE Europe. "We hope that our work gives the community the information and tools to steer us towards a more aligned, integrated and, yes, interoperable future."
The Antilope consortium will present and hand over the project results to the European eHealth community at a workshop on 29 January 2015 in Ghent, Belgium, with European and national policymakers, stakeholders, experts and guests. An agenda is now available, and a few spaces are still open: please visit www.antilope-project.eu/events/8/final-conference/ for more information and registration. As an EU funded activity, the project will end on 31 January 2015, but the website and all documents will remain available.
About Antilope project
The Antilope project drives eHealth interoperability in Europe and beyond. Antilope is a consortium of international stakeholder organisations and national eHealth competence centres including Medcom (DK), IHE Europe, ETSI, EuroRec, NICTIZ (NL), and the Continua Health Alliance. This core group has been consulting with expert partner organisations such as CEN TC 251, EN 13606 Association, GS1 and HL7, as well as with national eHealth competence centres in the EHTEL ELO network. For the organisation of regional events it has relied on a number of regional support partner organisations, which are listed on the Antilope website.
Antilope is a thematic network that has run for two years and has been partially funded by the European Commission under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP).