Article 15European electronic health record exchange format

1. By 26 March 2027, the Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, lay down the technical specifications for the priority categories of personal electronic health data referred to in Article 14(1), setting out the European electronic health record exchange format. Such format shall be commonly used, machine-readable and allow transmission of personal electronic health data between different software applications, devices and healthcare providers. Such format shall support transmission of structured and unstructured health data and shall include the following elements:

(a)

harmonised datasets containing electronic health data and defining structures, such as data fields and data groups for the representation of clinical content and other parts of the electronic health data;

(b)

coding systems and values to be used in datasets containing electronic health data;

(c)

technical interoperability specifications for the exchange of electronic health data, including its content representation, standards and profiles.

The implementing acts referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 98(2).

2. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, provide regular updates of the European electronic health record exchange format to integrate relevant revisions of the healthcare coding systems and nomenclatures. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 98(2).

3. The Commission may, by means of implementing acts, lay down technical specifications to extend the European electronic health record exchange format to additional categories of personal electronic health data referred to in Article 14(1), third subparagraph. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 98(2).

4. Member States shall ensure that the priority categories of personal electronic health data referred to in Article 14 are issued in the European electronic health record exchange format referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. Where such data are transmitted by automated means for primary use, the receiving provider shall accept the format of the data and be able to read them.