Patient Access Track

All sessions are streamed and recorded in a single Teams meeting (meeting ID: 387 011 141 036 79, passcode: Ed7a6FB2).

See also the schedule for Room 203 B on the Care Plans track page!

HL7 Finland has published the Finnish implementation guide for SMART App Launch. The affiliate is looking for feedback on the present version of the guide, and ideas for future development.

The City of Helsinki is looking for ideas on how to improve patient access to data in Apotti, especially through the Maisa patient portal.

Apotti is an Epic installation in Finland. You can connect to their rich APIs. See entry-level instructions at Apotti's ecosystem page!

The EHR vendor Epic is a strong supporter of the HL7® FHIR® standard as the future of REST-based interoperability. They support over 500 FHIR APIs across 57 resources in accordance with the HL7 FHIR standard. This spans the DSTU2, STU3, and R4 versions of the FHIR specification. They continue to regularly grow their number of supported FHIR APIs. Organizations can grant access to these resources via the search and read/write RESTful APIs that are defined by FHIR. Epic deployments in Denmark, Finland, and Norway make use of Epic's integration capabilities - FHIR and beyond - every day. You can find out more at open.epic.com/CountrySpecific/.

The track leads share the vision where Apotti is an excellent springboard to global markets for Finnish health tech companies. The companies can integrate their products with healthcare system workflows and get initial validation through Apotti, and then scale global through Epic's customer base, and beyond.

View the recording and download the presentation (PDF) of the webinar focusing this topic!

Hackathon Challenge by the City of Helsinki

City of Helsinki presents a challenge to hackathon participants.

Using Your Own Health Data - Using structured health information shared through Maisa/MyChart in an application that processes health data independently

The main aim of the challenge is to find examples of apps that would integrate with the Maisa patient app and benefit from the data in Apotti.

Evaluation Criteria

Benefits

The application uses the health data that can be shared through Maisa / MyChart independently. The application is impactful and provides benefits to public healthcare, for example through cost-effectiveness, social impact, or by advantages for the individual and/or healthcare professionals.

Implementability

The implementation of the application is straightforward. The data available to the application is not restricted from Maisa / MyChart side. The application can also use other health applications to support the customer's overall care. The application does not write any information back to Maisa/MyChart.

Ease of use

The application is easy to use. Usability means, e.g., technical simplicity, suitability for the purpose, and clear language in the application. The customer does not need healthcare professional's support to use the application.

Engagement

The application encourages the customer to use it regularly and in a meaningful way. Suitable gamification elements are used to support engagement.

Jury

The entries are evaluated by three judges:

• Leena Turpeinen, Director of Health and Substance Abuse Services, City of Helsinki
• Mika Perttu, Chief Digital Physician, City of Helsinki
• Petri Otranen, Chief Information Officer, City of Helsinki

Prizes

The top three participants in the Helsinki track will be awarded. The prizes are €2500, €1500 and €1000.

Kanta Patient Data Repository is a Finnish national service, storing data from primary and secondary care, from both public and private health care providers. Kanta has opened a new API for patient-facing apps. There is a test environment and support available for app developers looking to integrate with the service.

To get concrete implementation results during the hackathon, it is adviced to get started well in advance. Access to the test environment requires some bureaucracy and contracts, and a specific SSL client certificate issued by DVV.

However, you can also use the track to learn about Kanta APIs, discuss with Kela, and to plan future integration work.

Another Kanta service, the Kanta PHR is a platform for storing and exchanging health and wellness data produced and governed by the individual.

Developer support for Kanta PHR is being ramped down, as the feature will be undergoing major changes in the future, to be aligned with the new Right of natural persons to insert information in their own EHR set by the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation.

However, the documentation and the implementation guides are available, and it is possible to learn from them, discuss them, and even set up a development server to validate your implementation against the profiles.

xShare is a three-year Horizon Europe project envisioning everyone sharing their health data in European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF), with a click-of-a-button. See the Open Call 2025 for early adopters of the xShare Yellow Button, and information on the xShare Industry Label.

The EU project MyHealth@MyHands aims to ensure that all EU citizens have secure online access to their medical records. The project focuses on the role of identity wallets in enabling this access.

At the hackathon, the project will demonstrate a concept of the data chain involving EUDI Wallets, eHealth apps, national contact point infrastructure EU MyHealth@EU OpenNCP, and more - purpose-built for exploration and demonstrations.

MyData Global, funded by the Nordic Culture Point coordinates an Infrastructure Pilot for Wallets and AI focused on identity wallets and the International Patient Summary (IPS) specification. The pilot explores:

• how a patient summary document can be generated, with the help of artificial intelligence, out of health data from different sources
• how digital wallets can facilitate storing and sharing patient summary documents.

View the recording and download the presentation (PowerPoint, PDF) of the webinar focusing this topic!

The Google Sheet embedded below tracks:

• Information of partners who wish to make their participation on the track public
• Information of presentations and educational sessions organized during the hackathon
• Any ideas participants may have for work before, during, and after the hackathon

Please feel free to add your own information to the sheet!

Please be careful not to edit information entered by others.

Note that you also need to register to the hackathon separately.