Athens, Greece, 29–31 October 2026 – SRDC presented the latest results from the STAGE project at the EFMI Special Topic Conference 2026 (EFMI-STC 2026). This year’s conference focused on AI in Clinical Decision Making and Education and coincided with the 50th anniversary of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). On 30 October, Bunyamin Sarigul presented the paper “From Feature Definitions to Decision Support: Deploying Explainable ML Models as Plug-and-Play FHIR Services” in Session 12: Health Informatics and AI. The paper reports results from Work Package 7 of STAGE. It shows how explainable…Read more

What happens to the results of a research project once the funding period ends? For the DataTools4Heart project, the answer lies in a clear plan for exploitation, reuse and long-term sustainability. To share this plan, the project has launched a new video series of short excerpts from its workshop on the Key Exploitable Results (KERs). In the workshop, consortium partners presented the tools, datasets and frameworks developed within the project and discussed how they can be taken up beyond its lifetime. The second excerpt of the series features A. Anil Sinaci from SRDC,…Read more

The STAGE project has released a new video in its series on the project’s key areas, this time focusing on Digital Health Tools: Personalised Prevention. In the video, Gokce Banu Laleci Erturkmen, R&D Director at SRDC, and María Bulgheroni, R&D Director at Ab.Acus, introduce the intelligent digital health tools being developed within the project and explain how they support personalised prevention for healthy ageing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHK3ZTTBEfs STAGE (Stay Healthy Through Ageing) aims to show that a life-course approach can prevent accelerated ageing, which happens when multiple chronic conditions build up over time. As part…Read more

Frascati, Italy, 21–23 April 2026 – The annual consortium meeting of the STAGE project took place in Frascati, Italy. Partners spent three days reviewing progress across the work packages, sharing results and planning the next phase of the project. The meeting opened with an icebreaker inspired by Kenkäpeli, a Finnish wedding tradition, in which participants answered a series of questions by holding up a shoe. It was a fun nod to the project’s Finnish coordinator. The programme also included the AgeingDeal conference, which brought the consortium together with the wider healthy ageing community.…Read more

Helsinki, Finland, 19-21 January 2026 - This week, our team members Gokce Banu Laleci Erturkmen and Mustafa Yuksel have joined the Radical Health Festival and the Finnish Health Data Hackathon organized by HL7 FHIR Finland.During the hackathon, we shared our hands-on experience in implementing computable clinical guidelines and clinical decision support services on top of an HL7 FHIR-based interoperability layer powered by Repofyr.We presented how care flows can be created and executed via KronIQ, enabling the automation of evidence-based clinical guidelines to support the creation of personalized care plans.We also shared our experience…Read more

Berlin, October 2025 – SRDC participated in the Hospitals on FHIR User Days, an inspiring two-day event dedicated to advancing HL7® FHIR® interoperability across European healthcare systems. The event brought together leading hospitals, technology providers, and interoperability experts from across Europe to exchange insights and real-world experiences on FHIR implementation. Over two days, participants explored the evolving FHIR landscape, shared best practices, and discussed how emerging standards are transforming the way healthcare data is shared and used for patient benefit. As part of the event, SRDC joined as a Silver Sponsor, reinforcing our…Read more

Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 October - The UNCAN-Connect project officially launched in Tallinn, marking the start of a five-year initiative to transform how cancer research is conducted across Europe. Funded by the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme, the €29.9 million project brings together 53 partner organizations from 19 countries to co-develop UNCAN.eu, a decentralized collaborative platform enabling secure, ethical, and interoperable access to cancer data. UNCAN-Connect will validate its platform through use cases targeting six cancer types - paediatric, lymphoid, pancreatic, ovarian, lung, and prostate cancer, and will promote open access to cancer…Read more

It was a great opportunity to exchange expertise with vendors from across Europe while testing our tools’ interoperability for: 🔹International Patient Summary exchange 🔹xShare download & one-time sharing via SMART Health Cards 🔹Both for consuming and sharing EHR data using our SMART web applications. 🤝 We truly enjoyed the hands-on collaboration, tackling real-time challenges together, and seeing the power of standards like HL7 FHIR, SMART-on-FHIR and EHRxF in action. Thanks to the Gazelle platform, the peer-to-peer testings were smooth and easy to follow. 🎤 We also had the chance to attend insightful presentations on healthcare…Read more

In the complex landscape of healthcare data, ensuring that different systems can communicate with each other is a significant challenge. Medical terminologies, with their vast and varied vocabularies, often become a barrier to data exchange. This is where terminology services become essential. In this blog post, we will explore the powerful terminology service feature within the Ignifyr tool, demonstrating how it simplifies the handling of complex terminologies and code conversions in Electronic Health Record (EHR) ecosystems. The Challenge of Medical Terminologies EHR systems are rich with clinical information, but this data is often…Read more

The final General Assembly (GA) meeting of the CAREPATH project took place on 12 June 2025 in Birmingham, UK. All consortium partners were invited to attend, and the meeting provided an opportunity to present and review the progress, achievements, and remaining tasks in each work package. The meeting also addressed regulatory and ethical challenges encountered during implementation, especially concerning software as a medical device (SaMD). As a matter of fact, an in-depth discussion was held regarding the complexity of ethics approvals and regulatory inconsistencies across partner countries. The group agreed to collaborate on…Read more

REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is one of the most widely used platforms for collecting healthcare data in research and clinical studies. It is utilized by universities, hospitals, and other institutions worldwide. Since the adoption of FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), developed by HL7 (Health Level Seven International), a modern standard for electronic healthcare data exchange, is rapidly growing across the healthcare ecosystem and interoperability becomes essential, it is inevitable for organizations using REDCap to find out ways to transform their data into FHIR format. This is where the Ignifyr REDCap Integration comes in — a solution that…Read more

Defining schemas in Ignifyr is simple for most datasets. However, when working with complex schema, the process can become more time-consuming. You may need to go through each column, carefully defining its structure and repeatedly testing your mappings to ensure they work as expected with real data. This define–test–adjust cycle can extend the setup time in those more demanding scenarios. But what if there were a smarter way? Imagine simply providing your raw data — whether from a database or file system — and having Ignifyr automatically analyze it and generate the corresponding…Read more