Els Kooij

IHE-Europe and IHE USA jointly announced the creation of IHE Catalyst, a not-for-profit entity set to accelerate deployment and adoption of IHE to deliver interoperability quality in Health, adding additional value to the IHE Ecosystem. IHE Catalyst will work actively and support IHE Connectathons worldwide and will drive investments on the IHE Gazelle testing management platform and testing tools together with major tooling contributors such as Kereval, NIST, ArtDecor, MITRE/Inferno, PCHA etc. As such IHE Catalyst will support IHE operational activities worldwide, like IHE Connectathon(s) planning, tooling, and technical operations to deliver and support test platforms to eHealth projects and programmes, to drive investments in eHealth projects and to accelerate rigorous testing adoption, including IHE Conformity Assessment IHE Catalyst is set to broaden the reach of the IHE Ecosystem to Regional and National eHealth Organisations, Standardardisation bodies, Vendors, and Users by facilitating the adoption of IHE Profiles by eHealth projects, further expanding the IHE value chain to deployment validation. HE stakeholders, anywhere in the world, can now find an even stronger needed support in the realisation of their interoperability strategies by leveraging the testing tools and associated services by IHE Catalyst