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IHE Japan Connectathon Week 2025

■ IHE Japan Connectathon Week 2025
We are pleased to announce that IHE Japan will hold IHE Japan Connectathon Week 2025 on October 20th week!

IHE Connectathon is a great opportunity to validate transaction interfaces of various healthcare products following standardized IHE profiles. Besides, IHE Japan, MISAT (Medical Imaging Standards Association of Taiwan) and IHE Korea will collaborate to hold International Plugathon event during IHE Connectathon Week 2025 in parallel!!

International vendors including not only Japan, Taiwan, Korea and other countries will be able to learn and connect IHE and interoperability latest items each other on the several theme tracks, for example FHIR® IPS (International Patient Summary), RESTful Imaging, etc.

We hope many international vendors would like to join and communicate each other in IHE Japan Connectathon Week 2025!
■ 1. IHE Japan Connectathon
(1) Schedule : October 20th MON – 24th FRI, 2025
(October 19th SUN is preparation day）
(2) Venue : Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center TAITO-KAN, 6th Floor, Exhibition Hall
https://www.sanbo.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/taito/language/eng/
2-6-5 Hanakawado, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 111-0033
[TEL] 03-3844-6190   [FAX] 03-3843-6707
(3) Connectathon Testing Domain (Offering) :
●Radiology
●Cardiology
●Pathology & Laboratory (PaLM)
●Endoscopy [ in Japan only! ]
●IT Infrastructure
●Radiation Oncology
●Patient Care Device
●Eyecare
■ 2. International Plugathon Event
(1) Schedule : Monday October 20th – Thursday 23rd 2025
(2) Venue : Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center TAITO-KAN, 6th Floor, Exhibition Hall / 8,9th Floor, Meeting rooms
(3) Overview of Plugathon :
Plugathon is the event for learning and trial testing IHE profiles and related transactions including existing latest TI (Trial Implementation) which has been few adopted on products and is not so popular yet, and including future profiles which IHE is now discussing as work item proposals.

Vendors and engineers who are interested in the working area will be together in the event to share and learn implementation knowledge and expertise, and to implement and connect prototype in practice each other align with test plan on virtual use cases.

We won’t verify and announce your product status of pass/fail of the tests, because the event is not Connectathon. But you can learn detailed information about latest profiles with a connecting practice. Besides, if you have any opinion for the profile, we will upload later your opinion as a CP (Change Proposal) for IHE International.

This time, the event is collaborated among Japan, Taiwan and Korea as an International event. We expect many participants from international side including Taiwan and Korea who has much experience of IPS testing and they will facilitate IPS Track well. It must be so exciting! We hope many participants will join in and enjoy the event!

(4) Plugathon Tracks (Offering) :
● IPS Track
( FHIR® IPS w/ SVCM, etc. : Patient Summary information exchanging )
● Secure Infra Track
( IUA w/ MHD, etc. : Secure transaction infrastructure on internet )
● AI & RESTful Imaging Track
( AIR, WIA w/ WADO-RS/QIDO-RS, etc. : RESTful transactions for imaging )
● Digital PaLM Track
( LAW, DPIA w/ DICOM WSI, etc. : Digital workflow of Laboratory and Pathology )
■ 3. EHDS & EEHRxF Workshop
(1) Schedule : October 19th, 2025, SUN 13:00-17:00
(2) Venue : Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center TAITO-KAN, 8,9th Floor, Meeting rooms
(3) Overview : In April 2024, European Union (EU) agreed on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulations for sharing and utilizing medical information in a standard procedure, and each country has begun preparations for this purpose.

EHDS is planned to exchange information with a common communication protocol EEHRxF via a gateway from each country, ensuring interoperability.

The two pillars of primary use for medical purposes are MyHealth@EU and secondary use for research, drug discovery, etc., HealthData@EU, and EU is promoting the development of a foundation for the realization of digital medicine in Europe.

This time, at IHE Japan Connectathon 2025, we will hold a workshop in collaboration with Prof. Henrique Martins of ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal) to share information about EHDS and EEHRxF with engineers in Japan and Asia.

If you are interested in EU medical information sharing and its infrastructure, we would appreciate your participation.
■ 4. Participation Fee
For participants of Japan
(1) Participation Fee of IHE-Japan Connectathon (no including tax)
IHE-Japan Connectathon
S Member A Member Non-Member
Basic
Participation
Fee
(※a)
 JPY 500,000 JPY 500,000 JPY 600,000
System
entry fee
by
1 system:
(※b)
 JPY 100,000 / 1 system
The system participation fee for the following systems will be reduced according to the number of consecutive participations.
0 time: no discount
1 time: 1 system
2-3 times：2 systems
over 4 times：3 systems
JPY 100,000 / 1 system
The system participation fee for the following systems will be reduced according to the number of consecutive participations.
0-1 time: no discount
2-3 times：1 systems
over 4 times：2 systems
JPY 200,000 / 1 system
( Optional ) JPY 10,000 for 1 additional Table w/ 2 chairs.
( Optional ) JPY 100,000 for 1 VPN Connecting service from remote Site.
※a. We might cancel some profile tests if they won’t have enough participants. You can cancel your participation after closing registration, but if you will have already paid participation fee, you can cancel only if you have no available of all tests which you have registered.

You can join in (2) International Plugathon and (3) EHDS and EEHRxF Wrokshop, if you are a Connectathon participants.

IHE Japan Connectathon is for IHE profile testing with Japan National Extension (JP-NEX). If you want to join in, your product needs to apply specifications of JP-NEX. Please ask more information to IHE-Japan Domain Committee which you want to join. IHE-Japan will try to support for language barrier, but it is better you have a Japanese interpreter if you want to progress test smooth.
※b. 1 System Entry Fee includes following equipment :
1 table w/ 2 chairs, Power supply, Network cables & IP Addresses for systems, Support services, Connectathon SEAL.
(2) International Plugathon participation fee (no including tax)
International Plugathon
Participation Fee JPY 100,000 / vendor or organization
※1. 5 persons for 1 vendor or organization can join in the event because of capacity of meeting room.
※2. You can register all 4 Tracks, but Plugathon will progress 2 Tracks once in parallel. That means you can join max 2 Tracks.
※3. (1) Connectathon participating vendor can join here complementary.
※4. In the trial connect testing, a vendor or organization can bring some systems which are not disturb other participants’ testing. Our facilitator might restrict a part of your systems to participate if you bring a lot.
※5. Because Plugathon Track includes trial connecting test phase, if a Track will have not enough participants, it might be canceled after closing registration.
(3) EHDS & EEHRxF Workshop participation fee (no including tax)
EHDS & EEHRxF Workshop
Participation Fee JPY 1,000 / person
※1. If you are in a member of vendors or organizations of (1) Connectathon or (2) International Plugathon, you can join in here complementary. But 5 persons for 1 vendor or organization can join in the event because of capacity of meeting room.
※2. You need to apply prior using registration form on website. If you are an on-line participant, we will send you URL for participation. If you are an in-person participant, please come and join in our meeting room on the day. We cannot receive your registration request in front of the meeting room on the day.

For participants from Taiwan, Korea

MISAT and IHE Korea will announce and open their registration processes including regional registration fee system. Please ask it to Taiwanese or Korean Office of Japan Connectathon & International Plugathon 2025.

● MISAT - https://mitw.dicom.org.tw
● IHE Korea Link (URL: TBD)
■ 5. Schedule for Connectathon week
Schedule for Connectathon week
Term Event Description
May 8 THU Connectathon
Workshop
( on-line, sorry in Japanese )
( Participation free)
 We strongly recommend to join here if you are the first time of Connectathon participation.

Additionally, we will announce overview of International Plugathon.

If you need English materials, please ask it to IHE Japan Office.
May 9 FRI -
Jun. 30 MON		 Registration for
participation		 You can apply your registration using Web application system.

After registration, you need to register your system setting information to JP Gazelle system.
Jul. 7th MON -
9th WED
( tentative )
 Connectathon
Participants’ Workshop
( on-line, sorry in Japanese )
 It is only for Connectathon participants and complementary for joining.

We will announce line-up of planned testing profiles and will explain its specification including JP-NEX definitions.

We will also explain what participants need to do until Connectathon week.

If you need English materials, please ask it to IHE Japan Office.

Jul. 7th MON -
Mid of Sep.		 Registration
your revised system
setting information
on JP Gazelle.		 If you have any updated system information after your first Gazelle registration, you can revise it.
Jul. 7th MON -
Back of Sep.		 Pre-Connectathon
Checking
(Only for needed profiles)
 you perform pre-checking using test tools and upload your log file to Gazelle to make it checked by test monitors.
Until back of Sep. Expire of payment of
participation fee		 You need to call to IHE-Japan officer if you will delay your payment.
Front of Oct. Ordering IP address Gazelle System Manager will send IP address for your system.

You need to set up your system IP address with it.
OCT. 19th SUN EHDS & EEHRxF Workshop
(Meeting room)
System preparation
(Connectathon Venue, not mandate)
you can set up your system
under Connectathon venue network environment.
OCT. 20th MON -
24th FRI		 IHE-Japan 2025 Connectathon Event week
■ For more information
Please contact to Office of IHE-J 2025 Connectathon: ihe-tmp-cnt-office2025@ihe-j.org.jp

For Taiwan participants: mistmp-at.tw@gmail.com.jp
For Korea participants: (Mailto: TBD)