IHE: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

IHE: INTEGRATING THE HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE

It is an initiative by healthcare

professionals and industry to improve the

way computer systems in healthcare share

information.

PRIORITIZED PROJECTS

• Improve patient-ID binding

• Enhance device-enterprise communication

• Promoting the development of easy-to-use

IHE INTEGRATION PROFILES

It describes a clinical information need or

workflow scenario and

document how to use established

standards (e.g. HL7, DICOM, LOINC...) to

accomplish it.

CHARACTERISTICS OF IHE INTEGRATION PROFILES

• Each Integration Profile is based on relevant use-

cases described by real users.

• Integration Profiles are independent of

manufacturers or products.

• Integration Profiles are stable once published.

SOME DEFINITIONS

IHE INTEGRATION STATEMENTS

Are simple documents prepared and published by

a vendor to list the IHE Profiles supported by a

specific release of a specific product.

IHE TECHNICAL FRAMEWORKS

Are the detailed documents which specify the

Integration Profiles and the associated actors

(systems) and transactions.

IHE CONNECTATHONS

Are annual events where equipment vendors bring

products with IHE Profiles and test them with

other vendors.

IHE PROFILES PUBLISHED IN TRIAL IMPLEMENTATION

OR IN FINAL TEXT

• Anatomic Pathology

• Cardiology

• Eye Care

• IT Infrastructure

• Laboratory

• Patient Care

Coordination

• Patient Care Devices

• Radiation Oncology

• Radiology

IT INFRASTRUCTURE

PROFILES

• Consistent Time (CT)• Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA)• Request Information for Display (RID)• Enterprise User Authentication (EUA)• Patient Identifier Cross Referencing (PIX)• Patient Synchronized Application (PSA)• Patient Demographics Query (PDQ)• Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)• Personnel White Pages (PWP)• Cross-Enterprise Document Media Interchange (XDM)• Cross-Enterprise Document Reliable Interchange (XDR)• Patient Identifier Cross-Reference and Patient

Demographics Query for HL7v3 (PIX/PDQ/v3)• Retrieve Form for Data Capture (RFD)