New webinar series “Implement the EU lab report in your hospital”

A series of webinars that will help prepare your organization for EEHRxF implementation based on the experience of members of the community.

Hospitals on FHIR, in collaboration with HL7 Europe and the XIA Project, is pleased to introduce a brand-new webinar series for 2026.

This free webinar series is designed to inform and engage the community on the fundamentals of HL7 FHIR resources. Delivered as monthly, 30-minute afternoon sessions, each webinar focuses on a key topic, making it easy to build knowledge quickly and consistently.

Whether you are new to FHIR or looking to strengthen your understanding, this series offers a practical and accessible way to learn, one short session at a time.

3rd Webinar - April 30th

Implement the EU Lab Report in your Hospital - Simplifying EHDS readiness with HL7 FHIR standards

Building on the regulatory foundations introduced in the first session and the semantic layer explored in the second, this webinar focuses on the core technical standard enabling EHDS implementation: HL7 FHIR.

Participants will gain a structured introduction to the FHIR paradigm — its origins, its resource-based model, and why it represents a major shift in how health data is structured, exchanged, and reused across Europe. The session will also clarify the link between FHIR and semantic interoperability, and how standards-based architectures support EHDS readiness at hospital level.

🎙 Speaker

Luc Chatty – FHIR hashtag#urbanist and architect, biomedical engineer by background, serving as French Ambassador for the Hospitals on FHIR community and consultant to HL7 Europe. He supports hospitals and European initiatives in implementing FHIR-based architectures and advancing interoperability in the context of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and innovation projects.

✅ Key takeaways

1 - A short history of HL7 and the emergence of FHIR

2 - Understanding FHIR resources and the resource-based model

3 - The link between FHIR and semantics

4 - Why FHIR represents a paradigm shift for interoperability

5 - Practical implications for EHDS-ready hospital architectures

🎯 Target audience

Healthcare professionals, hospitals, health IT vendors, policymakers, and digital health interoperability stakeholders involved in EHDS implementation and standards-based data exchange.

📅 30 April 2026

🕒 15:00 CEST

🔗 Register here

2nd webinar “Implement the EU Lab Report in your Hospital - Medical Terminologies – Foundations for Semantic Interoperability”

Hospitals on FHIR, in collaboration with HL7 Europe and the XIA Project, is pleased to announce the second webinar in the series HoF – Implementing the EU Lab Report at Your Hospital: Medical Terminologies – Foundations for Semantic Interoperability.

Building on the regulatory foundations introduced in the first session, this webinar dives into the semantic layer that makes EHDS data categories truly usable in practice.

📅 Date: 26 March 2026

🕒 Time: 15:00

The session will also explain why terminologies are a prerequisite for interoperability, data reuse, analytics, and cross-border data exchange, and how they are concretely applied in modern standards such as HL7 FHIR.

🎙 Speaker

Roberta Gazzarata Ph.D,  HL7 Europe
Expert in health data interoperability and medical terminologies, actively involved in European and international standardisation activities, with a strong focus on semantic interoperability, terminology binding, and EHDS-aligned data exchange.

1st webinar “EHDS & Data Domains”

First session: The series kicks off with a 30-minute webinar delivered by Simon Lewerenz (XIA Project), focusing on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and the priority health data domains.

📅 Date: 26 February 2026

🕒 Time: 15:00

This free opening Hospitals on FHIR webinar introduces the European Health Data Space (EHDS), in partnership with HL7 Europe and the Xia project, and provides an overview of the health data categories defined for primary use. It describes which types of health data are in focus, how they are framed at the EU level and what this means in practice for healthcare organisations and IT providers.

The session sets the regulatory and conceptual foundation for the full webinar series, clarifying how EHDS data categories translate into concrete interoperability requirements.

Speaker: Simon Lewerenz (ISCTE) 

Researcher in digital health and interoperability. Simon has been involved in several EHDS-related European projects during his PhD, working under the coordination of Henrique Martins, with a focus on European health data governance and interoperability frameworks.