IHE Catalyst has advanced initiatives to enable cross-border healthcare data exchange in Europe, focusing on standards-based interoperability, testing events and practical implementations. The programme showcased interoperability tools, profiles and reference implementations intended to help connect national systems for patient summaries, e-prescriptions and imaging, organisers said. Work emphasizes FHIR and IHE profiles to reduce integration complexity and accelerate cross-border deployments.
For AI in healthcare, Catalyst’s push to harmonize data formats and consent models could unlock more consistent, high-quality datasets for model development, validation and real‑world evaluation, and support federated or privacy-preserving approaches. Standards-based exchange also helps integrate AI-driven decision support into clinical workflows and maintain provenance, auditability and governance essential for regulatory compliance. Stakeholders cautioned that strong consent, security and data quality controls remain critical to ensure safe, ethical use of cross-border data for AI.
