With the beginning of 2010, the OFFIS health division started with the EU-funded project HITCH (Healthcare Interoperability Testing and Conformance Harmonisation), which aims at enhancing interoperability between information systems in health care. Together with partners from France (INRIA, ETSI, EuroRec), Belgium (IHE Europe) and Denmark (MedCom) as well as relevant stakeholders, OFFIS is working on a roadmap for a quality management system to establish a platform for interoperability and conformance testing in the area of health care.

Information and communicition technologies (ICT) play a key role in guaranteeing optimal health care for patients (eHealth). Because of the different sectors and care providerds involved in health care delivery, a seamless interoperability of all involved information systems is crucial. In order to achieve this goal, vendors, users, patients and authorities are in need of testing, certification and quality labeling tools for assuring quality of their information systems.