Patient Care Device

Domain Overview

The Patient Care Device Domain is concerned with Use Cases in which at least one actor is a regulated patient care device. The PCD coordinates with other IHE clinical specialty based domains such as Radiology (medical imaging), Laboratory, and I.T. Infrastructure.

PCD Vision Statement

The IHE Patient Care Device Domain (IHE PCD) is the nexus for vendors and providers to jointly define and demonstrate unambiguous interoperability specifications, called profiles, which are based on industry standards, and which can be brought to market.

PCD Mission Statement

The IHE Patient Care Device Domain, working with regional and national deployment committees, will apply the proven, Use Case driven IHE processes to:

• Deliver the technical framework for the IHE-PCD domain profiles;
• Validate IHE-PCD profile implementations via Connectathons; and
• Demonstrate marketable solutions at public trade shows.

IHE-PCD profiles:

• improve patient safety and clinical efficacy,
• reduce healthcare delivery cost by improving efficiency, reliability, and operational flexibility for healthcare providers,
• enable innovative patient care capabilities, and
• expand the international marketplace for patient care device vendors.

IHE Patient Care Device domain is sponsored by the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) and the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and manages the development and maintenance of the PCD Profiles and the PCD_Technical_Framework.

The PCD Wiki Map shows the organization of the domain's wiki pages.

The PCD general wiki index page provides a listing of all pages developed by this domain.

The PCD Meetings page provides a listing of all the meeting announcement and minutes pages.

Getting Started

If you are new to either IHE or the Patient Care Device domain, the PCD Getting Started page provides the historical and background information about that domain that will help you determine the best place to plug into their project activities.

Organization

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Roadmap & Schedule

The Roadmap outlines the PCD's goals and plans over the next 5-10 years.

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Technical Framework & Profiles

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Demonstrations & Presentations

Date	Location	Event	Details
2007.02.27	New Orleans, LA	20070227-HIMSSShowcase-IHE-PCD-C.ppt presented at HIMSS Annual Meeting	found at ftp://ftp.ihe.net/Patient_Care_Devices/Presentations/
April 2007	Webex Presentation	"Orientation to the PCD" PDF version: 20070404-IHE-PCD-Orientation.pdf	found at ftp://ftp.ihe.net/Patient_Care_Devices/Presentations/
Earlier		Earlier presentations are also available	found at ftp://ftp.ihe.net/Patient_Care_Devices/Presentations/

Tool Support

Supporting the implementation and testing of IHE PCD profiles requires a number of tools.

Specific information on PCD test tooling is available on the PCD Testing and PCD Tools wiki pages.

More general IHE profile support is on the Implementation tools and guidance wiki page.

Supporters and Endorsements

IHE Patient Care Device is supported or endorsed by the following organizations:

• American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE)
• Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

See Also

Committees

IHE Patient Care Device Profiles

IHE Patient Care Device Technical Framework

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