Principal & Chief Executive, InteropEhealth; IHE Europe representative to Catalyst, France
Charles Parisot is recognized world-wide for his ability to guide the operational adoption and adaptation of internationally recognized profiles and standards while ensuring the necessary engagement of the local stakeholders.
He is currently the Chair of the IHE SHARAZONE Task Force and the Coordinator of the IHE Multi-Country Working Group (MCWG) on imaging information sharing hosted by IHE-Europe.
He entered the health domain in 1990, when he joined GE Healthcare to drive the emergence of an effective Standard in digital imaging, DICOM, which is now widely adopted world-wide, through professional and vendor associations.
Charles contributed to the European large-Scale Project (epSOS) for the exchange of Cross-border patient summaries and ePrescriptions where he led the Steering Committee of the Industry Team representing more than 30 vendors. He has contributed to the European epSOS decision to base its interoperability specification on IHE profiles, leverage the use of IHE test tools, and organize the epSOS Projectathon, based on the model of the famous IHE Connectathon.
He has been active in the national healthcare field for the past 35 years, bridging the clinical, policy and business domains with the complex technical domain of health IT interoperability standards. In doing so, he has gained the respect of several physician societies, regional and national health information exchange projects and leading government health officials around the world.
Charles Parisot is currently the Principal and Chief Executive of InteropEhealth, that focuses on large scale health information exchange in regional, national or cross-border settings.
