Recruitment Brochure

IHE: Technology for Optimal Care

What is IHE? - Puzzle Piece Brochure

Optimal patient care requires efficient, secure access to comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs). The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative accelerates the adoption of EHRs by improving communication among healthcare information systems.

IHE Integration Profiles: A Framework for Interoperability IHE profiles provide a standards-based framework for sharing health information among authorized care providers within a given care setting and across networks of such sites. In developing each profile, clinicians and IT experts work to identify critical interoperability issues in information access, clinical workflow, administration and underlying infrastructure.

More than 250 vendors worldwide have implemented and tested products with IHE capabilities.

"IHE, more than any other single organization, has paved the way for practical interoperability." - Wes Rishel, Gartner, Inc.

• Standards and interoperability
• IHE adds clinical use cases
• Healthcare professionals and industry
• Across domains
• Foundation for comprehensive EHR
• International
• Broad participation - ??? members
• Relationship to national initiatives (HITSP, EC, etc.)
• Established process (four steps)
• Real-world implementation testing
• Actual real-world deployments
• 10 years of experience
• Advanced testing tools

IHE Outcomes Improved access to medical information

• safety
• quality
• efficiency
• privacy/security?

Recruitment Pitch IHE invites knowledgeable experts from the user and vendor communities to join its domain committees and participate in the current cycle of profile development. Participants have the opportunity to influence the direction of standards adoption for sharing medical information and improving care. The currently active domains are:

• Anatomic Pathology
• Eye Care
• IT Infrastructure
• Laboratory
• Patient Care Coordination
• Patient Care Devices
• Quality, Research and Public Health
• Radiation Oncology
• Radiology

Information on the work of the committees is available on each domain's Wiki page: http://wiki.ihe.net/index.php?

All committees are open to participants. Stakeholders interested in participating or learning more should contact the committee secretaries listed there.

• How to become a Member ORG
• List of current member orgs
• Sponsors -- Need Web page
• National/Regional Orgs -- Need Web page

Tools for Implementers

Testing Process for Vendors

Marketing and Communications Committee