Welcome to the Glossary for xShare

The xShare glossary provides the list of terms, acronyms and definitions used by the different teams working within the xShare project. In order to reduce barriers to understanding and to avoid misunderstandings and mistakes, a specific Glossary of terms related to the xShare project has been set up, coordinated in particular with the XpanDH project and other relevant projects surrounding the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EHRxF).

As a lot of specific terminology is used, it is important that the scientific, regulatory, healthcare and technical communities use and understand the terms in the same way. Members of the public, including patients, may also benefit from the explanations provided for many of the terms.

The xShare glossary will expand during the course of the project and is openly accessible. It is meant to evolve into the common glossary to be used in the European EHRxF Standards and Policy Hub, to be established as part of the project.

This glossary is shared with other European projects, who are collaborating to help grow a useful resource for all. The project glossary editors can review each other's entries and bring them in to their own project glossary if they wish. It has been developed and is hosted by The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data, in partnership with RAMIT.

If you find any errors, or wish to suggest a better definition or explanation than we have, or wish to suggest additional terms we should add, please email robert@trace-health.nl, co-lead of xShare WP2 and responsible for the xShare glossary.