Advancing the EHDS vision: access and share your health data with the click of a Button

More than a final project event, “Advancing the EHDS vision: access and share your health data with the click of a Button” is an opportunity to take stock of what xShare has achieved, learn from implementation in practice, and look ahead to what European health interoperability needs next.

Three years of collaboration through xShare project  have advanced a shared ambition: everyone can access and share their health data at the click of the Yellow Button. Through its Adoption Sites, Expressions of Interest, Open Calls awardees, Industry Label activities, X-Bundles, and adoption kits, xShare has brought together organisations across Europe to advance the European EHR Exchange Format (EEHRxF).

xShare has taken pragmatic steps to prepare industry stakeholders for the EHDS, while bridging care, with public health, and clinical research. This fueled proposing new priority data categories for the EHDS, the IPS+ and the Care Plans. At the same time, tools and services to accelerate adoption were tested, and specifications matured.

As xShare approaches its conclusion and the EHDS moves into implementation, the focus is on building on these best practices and concrete results ensuring continuity and sustainability: European Standards for Health Interoperability Alliance (ESHIA) takes xShare project results into real world solutions. ESHIA will support EEHRxF implementation, strengthening person-centred access to health data, fueling  European innovation with actionable steps toward health union.

The theme of the xShare Final conference and Community Summit – “Advancing the EHDS vision: access and share your health data with the click of a Button” will bring together people and organisations working on EHDS to Málaga to demonstrate what has been achieved, share practical implementation results, see interoperability in action, and shape what comes next. The Community Summit and Awards Dinner is an opportunity for recognizing excellence in readiness for EHDS implementation and adoption.

We invite EEHRxF implementers and early adopters, healthcare providers, Yellow Button Open Call providers, xShare Industry Label recipients, ESHIA members, technical experts, policy makers, European initiatives and other organisations working on health interoperability to join us and:

• Learn about what xShare has achieved and recognise the people and organisations that advance EHDS readiness and vision.
• Meet the early adopters of the EEHRxF and exchange first-hand experiences of implementing interoperable health data sharing in real-world settings;
• Connect initiatives working on common challenges, including citizen access, care pathways, procurement, standards and implementation;
• Identify the next steps for EEHRxF implementation, linking practical experience with EHDS milestones and the specific conditions in Member States;
• Shape the future of xShare assets, including through ESHIA and the wider ecosystem that will continue supporting the EEHRxF and European health interoperability.

Be sure to join us as there are limited seats available.

xShare Final Conference and Community Summit

Malaga 20-21 November, 2026

📍 NH Málaga Hotel

Preliminary Program

More details on the programme will follow soon.

You can download the invitation and preliminary programme here.

Register here!