HL7 FHIR DevDays
Strategy Day
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Amsterdam
What is Strategy Day?
Strategy Day is a unique opportunity at DevDays 2025 designed for healthcare and healthtech leaders to explore the strategic aspects of FHIR adoption and interoperability.
This intimate full-day event, limited to 50 participants, provides high-level insights, expert-led strategic discussions, and valuable networking opportunities to help decision-makers drive their digital health initiatives forward.
Who Should Attend
Designed for healthcare innovators and decision-makers
- Decision-makers and influencers, enterprise architects, and project managers in care providers (e.g., hospitals) and healthtech companies
- Policymakers in government and health authorities
- C-suite executives: CMIOs, CIOs, CTOs
Why Attend Strategy Day?
Shape the future of health IT
- Understand FHIR fundamentals: Things you need to know to take part in meaningful conversations about FHIR with internal and external stakeholders.
- Business case development: Learn how to build a business case for a FHIR project.
- Regulation insights: Explore current and future regulations, both nationally and from an EU perspective.
- FHIR and openEHR: Understand their differences, overlaps, and integrations.
- Skills for FHIR teams: Identify the skills needed to run and maintain a FHIR data infrastructure.
- Strategic decision-making: What to build, what to buy?
Agenda
Engage in thought leadership and actionable strategy
| Time | Session | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | DevDays Keynote: The WHO SMART Guidelines | Carl Leitner, WHO |
| 09:00 | Welcome | Rien Wertheim, Firely |
| 09:10 | Current state and future of FHIR as a standard | Grahame Grieve, Founder of FHIR |
| 09:35 | FHIR for project leaders: how involved do you need to be? | Darren Devitt, Vanya Labs |
| 09:55 | Coffee break | |
| 10:15 | FHIR in the Netherlands, Dutch regulation explained | Jim Bloemberg, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports |
| 10:40 | FHIR in Germany, German regulation explained | Margaux Gatrio & Alexander Bartschke , Charité |
| 11:05 | FHIR in Europe – Preparing for the European Health Data Space | Rutt Lindström, TEHIK |
| 11:30 | FHIR in the US, US regulation explained | Don Rucker, 1upHealth |
| 11:55 | Q&A | Rien Wertheim, Firely |
| 12:30 | Lunch & networking | |
| 13:30 | DevDays Keynote: EHDS: The missing link in healthcare’s digital transformation | Itte Overing, ICT Recht |
| 13:50 | DevDays Keynote: US-European treaties on privacy | Max Schrems, NOYB – European Center for Digital RIghts |
| 14:30 | FHIR and openEHR | Rachel Dunscombe, openEHR and Grahame Grieve, Health Intersections |
| 14:55 | EURIDICE specifications for the EHDS | Andreas Klingler, IHE-Europa & Giorgio Cangioli, HL7 Europe |
| 15:15 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 | Business case workshop | Darren Devvit, Vanya Labs & Martine Berden, Firely |
| 17:00 | Networking drinks |
Speakers and Thought Leaders
Meet the experts shaping the industry
Founder of FHIR
EHDS Expert
FHIR Influencer
Germany’s Number 1
Interoperability Expert
CEO
Firely
CEO
openEHR
Overview
- Short presentations on critical topics with ample time for discussion and networking
- Small, intimate group setting (max 50 attendees, including speakers)
- Opportunities to mingle with the DevDays technical audience during lunch
Location and Date
- Venue: B. Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Fees
- Early bird: €450* (register and pay before May 1, 2025)
- Late registration: €750*
- Drinks, lunch, and dinner included
*Prices are exclusive of VAT if applicable
Get in touch
If you have any questions about DevDays,
please contact our Conference Manager Marita Mantle-Kloosterboer
