HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting, 16-20 November 2026 in Málaga, Spain – Shaping the future of HL7® FHIR® in Europe
Overview
Join us! HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting 2026 in Málaga!
Join us in Málaga, Spain, for the next HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting 2026
Date: Monday 16 to Friday 20 November 2026
Location: NH Málaga, C. San Jacinto, 2, Distrito Centro, 29007 Málaga, Spain (in-person event)
Satellite: xShare Closing Event Thursday 19 November (afternoon) to Saturday 21 November 2026
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Please book your ticket soon, it could get crowded.
Full Registration starts soon (dates to be announced)
Early Bird Rate 499 EUR incl. 21% VAT (Spain) – available until 10 Oct 12:00
Normal Rate 599 EUR incl. 21% VAT (Spain)
Day Tickets will be available, too.
All tickets are subject to 21% Spanish VAT.
Please note: Consider booking your hotel rooms at your earliest convince.
NH Málaga, C. San Jacinto, 2, Distrito Centro, 29007 Málaga, Spain
Sponsorship Opportunities
See our Málaga Sponsorship Page for more information.
Hotel Recommendations
Please book your hotel and travel arrangements at your earliest convenience. Our WGM dates overlap Andalucía TRADE Global on 17–18 November at FYCMA, so Málaga will have additional business-travel demand.
Tentative Agenda – Key Elements November 2026
HL7 Europe meets in Málaga for five days of working sessions on
- the European FHIR Implementation Guides and European Health Data Space topics,
- tutorials and workshops,
- adoption in practice
- hands-on testing,
- FHIR in an instance, and
- project work and governance meetings.
Implementation Guide work. We plan sessions across the full set, cross-cutting topics come first: open JIRA issues, obligations under Articles 15 and 36, logical model alignment, alignment with EHDS expectations. We present a summary of what has changed since the last Working Group Meeting. From there the work splits into Laboratory and Medical Test Result with the new microbiology profiles, Core with new profiles such as CarePlan, Imaging, the Medicinal Product Dictionary together with the IHE MPD status, and ePS/HDR with the Data API and the EU Digital Identity Wallet.
Tutorials and workshops. An introduction to the EU FHIR IGs, the EU Wallet, SNOMED on FHIR including the LOINC extension, MyHealth@EU services, and EHDS status and perspectives with the European Commission alongside vendor and implementer views. WHO UMC leads a session on the PhPID API for ePrescription and eDispensation, facilitated by HL7 Europe MPD, with hands-on testing for volunteers.
Adoption in practice. National agencies and implementers report on what actually happened when the guides met production systems: issues and the solutions found, instance validation, EHDS-related national implementations, and feedback that goes straight back into the IGs.
A full day of hands-on testing. Testing instead of slides, with no parallel technical sessions. On the programme are EHDS scenarios including EURIDICE specifications, the pre-adoption of the R5 document bundle rules in Laboratory, the Medicinal Product Dictionary, EMA, and mHealth@myHand with the Wallet.
FHIR in an instance. Render or surrender: narrative text in FHIR resources under the EHDS. SYNDERAI, the synthetic data set for EHDS testing, validation and teaching, presented together with its visualisation.
Projects and governance. xShare, the European Common Cancer Model and PHOENIX, and EURIDICE, plus the TNT meeting, the HL7 Europe Board meeting and the first session of the new European FHIR IG Management Group.
Venue is the NH Málaga, C. San Jacinto 2, 29007 Málaga. The xShare closing event follows from 19 to 21 November.
Tentative Agenda – DRAFT
Every day: registration in the Hall (Floor -1) from 08:30, lunch 12:30–13:30.
From Thursday: xShare registration in the Hall (Floor -1) from 12:30.
Tracks run in parallel in separate rooms. A track number carries no meaning of its own and does not stay with the same room across days. Entries separated by a slash run in parallel as well.
| DAY / TIME | TRACK 1 | TRACK 2 | TRACK 3 | TRACK 4+5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, 16 November 2026 | ||||
| 08:30–09:00 | Welcome note | |||
| 09:00–10:30 | Networking – chat/coffee/tea | TNT Meeting (Patrick Werner, Giorgio Cangioli) | ||
| 11:00–12:30 | Networking – chat/coffee/tea | TNT Meeting (Patrick Werner, Giorgio Cangioli) | ||
| 13:30–15:00 | Tutorial: Introduction and Overview – European EHDS-related FHIR IGs (Patrick Werner) | FHIR IG Development Work: Base/Core (Giorgio Cangioli) | ||
| 15:30–17:00 | Tutorial: Terminology bindings in FHIR IGs – different approaches (Rutt Lindström) | FHIR IG Development Work: Base/Core/CarePlan (Patrick Werner) | ||
| Tuesday, 17 November 2026 | ||||
| 08:30–09:00 | HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting Opening Ceremony Keynote and Announcements | |||
| 09:00–10:30 | Tutorial and Discussion: FHIR Validation ecosystem and testing approaches (Oliver Egger) | FHIR IG Development Work: Laboratory/Medical Test Result | European Common Cancer Model (Roberta Gazzarata, Thomas Debertshäuser) | HL7 Europe Board Meeting (Jan-Eric Slot) / IHE Steering Committee |
| 11:00–12:30 | Tutorial and Workshop: Discussion on EHDS Terminology Infrastructure (Rutt Lindström) | FHIR IG Development Work: Laboratory/Medical Test Result | European Common Cancer Model (Roberta Gazzarata, Thomas Debertshäuser) | HL7 Europe Board Meeting (Jan-Eric Slot) / IHE Steering Committee |
| 13:30–15:00 | Discussion: Decentralised infrastructures in EHDS (Mattias Colliander) | FHIR IG Development Work: EPS (Giorgio Cangioli, Kai Heitmann) | European Common Cancer Model (Roberta Gazzarata, Thomas Debertshäuser) | IHE Steering Committee / Workshop: Cities@Heart Project (Eva Sabajova) |
| 15:30–17:00 | Tutorial: EU Wallet (Alberto Zanini) | FHIR IG Development Work: HDR | European Common Cancer Model, including Synthetic Data for Phoenix (Roberta Gazzarata, Thomas Debertshäuser, Kai Heitmann) | IHE Steering Committee / Workshop: Cities@Heart Project (Eva Sabajova) |
| Wednesday, 18 November 2026 | ||||
| 08:30–09:00 | Keynote: Jan-Eric Slot, Progress of HL7 Europe, and Announcements | |||
| 09:00–10:30 | FHIR in an Instance – Render or Surrender: FHIR Text (Kai Heitmann, René Spronk) | FHIR IG Development Work: MPD | Hands On FHIR – Testing sessions for EHDS-related FHIR IGs, MyHealth@MyHands, and more | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Tutorial: LOINC & UCUM (Eza Hafeza) | FHIR in an Instance – 3T: transform, transcode, translate for the EHDS (Kai Heitmann) | Hands On FHIR – Testing sessions for EHDS-related FHIR IGs, MyHealth@MyHands, and more | |
| 13:30–15:00 | Discussion: Parts of Patient Summary as standalone services (Daniel Karlsson) | Tutorial and discussion: PhPID API for ePrescription and eDispensation systems (WHO UMC) | EURIDICE – Working together for the EHDS: connecting Euridice with the broader ecosystem (Sofia Franconi, Giorgio Cangioli, Andreas Klingler, Kai Heitmann) | |
| 15:30–17:00 | Tutorial: SNOMED on FHIR – incl. LOINC, NUVA and other extensions, and using postcoordination in FHIR (SNOMED International) | i2X session on the EHRxF ecosystem and policy environment after the Art. 15 Implementing Act (Michael Strübin) | EURIDICE: Technical Work session – API Work Group Meeting (Josh Priebe) | |
| from 17:00 | Networking Reception (NH Hotel) | |||
| Thursday, 19 November 2026 | ||||
| 08:30–09:00 | Keynote and Announcements | |||
| 09:00–10:30 | EHDS status and perspectives | FHIR IG Development Work: MPD | Tutorial and Workshop: FHIR Mapping Language FML and CDA to FHIR Mapping (Constantin Renner, Gabriel Leonhartsberger) | |
| 10:30–12:30 | ESHIA General Assembly (Marc Lange) | |||
| 11:00–12:30 | Discussion: National implementations of EHDS (René Spronk) | Tutorial: FHIR IG Publishing | ||
| 13:30–15:00 | Tutorial: MyHealth@EU crossborder services – the basics and state of play | Tutorial and Workshop: Analytics on FHIR. Progress of the SQL on FHIR specification, FHIR to OMOP subproject | xShare Open Consortium Meeting (Mie Hjorth Matthiesen, Catherine Chronaki) | |
| 15:30–17:00 | Tutorial and discussion: Secondary Use for Primary Use Implementers (René Spronk) | Tutorial and Workshop: Tooling to compare national implementation guides with the EU IGs (Jonas Schön) | xShare Open Consortium Meeting (Mie Hjorth Matthiesen, Catherine Chronaki) | European Advisory Committee (Roeland Luykx) |
| from 17:00 | Farewell-Champagne (NH Hotel) | |||
| evening | xShare Community Dinner (outside the hotel, venue to be announced) | |||
| Friday, 20 November 2026 | ||||
| 08:30–09:00 | HL7 Europe Working Group Meeting Closing Ceremony | |||
| 09:00–10:30 | Hospitals on FHIR and AI (Stefano Dalmiani) | FHIR IG Development Work / EURIDICE: Imaging (Bas van den Heuvel, Josh Priebe) | xShare Open Consortium Meeting (Mie Hjorth Matthiesen, Catherine Chronaki) | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Tutorial: FHIR Logical Models (Daniel Karlsson, Rutt Lindström) | FHIR IG Development Work / EURIDICE: Imaging (Bas van den Heuvel, Josh Priebe) | xShare Open Consortium Meeting (Mie Hjorth Matthiesen, Catherine Chronaki) | |
| 13:30–15:00 | European FHIR IG Management Group (Patrick Werner, Giorgio Cangioli) | xShare Open Consortium Meeting (Mie Hjorth Matthiesen, Catherine Chronaki) | ||
| 15:30–17:00 | European FHIR IG Management Group (Patrick Werner, Giorgio Cangioli) | xShare Open Consortium Meeting (Mie Hjorth Matthiesen, Catherine Chronaki) | ||
| Saturday, 21 November 2026 — xShare only | ||||
| 09:00–10:30 | xShare Open Consortium Meeting (Mie Hjorth Matthiesen, Catherine Chronaki) | |||
| 11:00–12:30 | xShare Open Consortium Meeting (Mie Hjorth Matthiesen, Catherine Chronaki) |
This agenda is preliminary and subject to change.
Sponsorship Opportunities
See our Málaga Sponsorship Page for more information.
Accommodation Recommendations
Please book your hotel and travel arrangements at your earliest convenience. Our WGM dates overlap Andalucía TRADE Global on 17–18 November at FYCMA, so Málaga will have additional business-travel demand.
See our Málaga Accommodation Page for more information.