The “Mind the EHDS-Gap!” symposium in Heidelberg brought together experts and EHDS enthusiasts from across Europe for inspiring insights, open dialogue, and practical discussions on the European Health Data Space (EHDS).

Together, participants explored key challenges, shared experiences, and discussed ways to turn the EHDS vision into real-world action.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed their expertise, ideas, and enthusiasm to this valuable exchange!

Here, we present the key highlights and presentation slides from our esteemed speakers.

We are still awaiting consent to publish the presentation slides from some of our virtual speakers. We will update the homepage as soon as we have received their confirmation.

Session 1

• Prof. Roland Eils (HIGHmed /EHDA) – What have we built through HIGHmed
• Dennis Appelt (EHDA) – Introducing European Health Data Alliance e.V.

Session 2

• Lynn Strunk (PKV-Verband) – Data Holders and the EHDS: Navigating Compliance Requirements
• Irene Schlünder (TMF) – Where do we stand with the implementation of the EHDS,and what are the key issues for the future

Session 3

• Prof. Fabian Prasser (BIH@Charité) – Scalable Open Tools for Health Data Access
• Vincent Rerrault (French Digital Health Delegation) – The French Perspective on the EHDS
• Amélie Schäfer (HDH France) – EHDS Implementation in France: An HDAB perspective
• Heikki Leväslahio (CSC - IT Finland)  – Past and Current Developments –EHDS Implementation in the Nordics
• Lifang Liu (Health-RI Netherlands) – CANDLE: Sparking EHDS-ready solutions,Transforming cancer care

Session 4

• Severin Kohler (openEHR International)– EHR in EHDS
• Pascal Suppers (Data Hub Maastricht) – Linking Community and Technology to enable FAIR data
• Toralf Schnell (UK Greifswald) – Federated Regional Secondary Data Architecture in the EHDS Context
• Oliver Diekmeier (UK Cologne) – Mind the Grey: what routine documents tell us about a patient‘s path - and what the EHDS could add
• Dr. Dirk Meyer zum Büschenfelde (BIH@Charité) – Integrating Multimodal Health Data with openEHR and Exporting to FHIR

Session 5

• Christian Buggedei (EHDA)– EHD-X Infrastructure Showcase
• Dr.-Ing. Tim Suthau (UniTransferKlinik Lübeck GmbH) – Trusted data spaces for medical AI
• Patrick Hentschel (SVA) – Behind the Connector
• Christian Buggedei (EHDA) – A Shared Vision for the Future of Health Data