{"id":1648,"date":"2026-05-20T17:09:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racsel.org\/nueva\/?page_id=1648"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:05:58","slug":"conectaton-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.racsel.org\/en\/conectaton-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Connectathon 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Between November 12 and 14, 2023, in Sao Paulo, Brazil<\/strong>, the second Regional LACPASS Connectathon was held, a pioneering event in the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean that demonstrated the region's technical enabling conditions for the timely and secure exchange of clinical information, whenever people need it.<\/p>

The event featured the presence of national representatives from member countries, health authorities, information and telecommunications technology experts, international organizations, and technical teams gathered for collaboration and innovation. On this occasion, there were 18 registered participants: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Washington State, USA.<\/p>

The LACPASS Connectathon aims to strengthen a Pan American digital health network, with the goal of opening more opportunities for interoperable regional health.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Connectathon Tracks<\/span>
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The 2nd edition of the LACPASS Connectathon included 2 tracks based on the enablers considered essential for the LAC region.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Track 1 \u2013 International Patient Summary<\/strong>: The goal of this track is for each participant to generate their own International Patient Summary based on the IPS profile (International Patient Summary) and interoperate according to the transactions defined by the MHD profile (Mobile Health Document). Requirements: FHIR Standard, IPS Profile, MHD Profile. LACPASS Docker.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Track 2a \u2013 Vaccination Certificates<\/strong>: The goal of this track is for each participant to generate and interoperate a vaccination certificate based on the WHO's DDCC profile. Requirements: FHIR Standard, WHO DDCC, LACPASS Docker.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Track 2b \u2013 Innovation (Optional)<\/strong>: The goal of this track is to learn about decentralized identifiers (DID) and how to send vaccination certificates to digital wallets based on the verifiable credentials standard.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Throughout the event, of the 18 registered countries, 16 actively participated in the tracks through the testing platforms. 403 test instances were run. Of these, 17 were incomplete, 8 had partial verification, and 14 failed. However, 363 tests were run successfully.<\/p>

Of the 363 successful tests:<\/p>