Domains

IHE Domains are responsible for the development and maintenance of the IHE Technical Frameworks that document the Integration Profiles. Each domain manages Integration Profiles in a particular part of healthcare. For convenient reference, each domain has a short acronym. A general overview of the annual timeline of domain committee activities can be found here: Domain Milestone Dates. Domains submit annual Board Reports of their activities.

The currently active IHE domains are:

• IHE Devices (DEV)
• IHE Endoscopy (ENDO)
• IHE IT Infrastructure (ITI)
• IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PaLM)
• IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC)
• IHE Pharmacy (PHARM)
• IHE Quality, Research and Public Health (QRPH)
• IHE Radiation Oncology (RO)
• IHE Radiology (RAD)

Dormant Domains

• IHE Cardiology (CARD)
• IHE Dental (DENT)
• IHE Eye Care (EYECARE)
• IHE Surgery (SURG)

New domains are added as more fields of healthcare adopt the IHE process.

Each domain carries out its work in two Committees.

The Planning Committee for a domain:

• Recruits vendors of relevant information systems and users with clinical and operational experience
• Develops long-term goals and roadmap
• Identifies integration and information sharing problems and priorities
• Gathers and reviews proposals for new problems/profiles.
• Selects proposals for technical/effort evaluation by the Technical Committee
• Approves proposals for Profile development by the Technical Committee
• Develops educational materials for the domain and profiles

The Technical Committee for a domain:

• Recruits vendors of relevant information systems and users with clinical and operational experience
• Assesses the feasibility and estimated effort of selected profile proposals
• Builds consensus on the appropriate standards-based solutions to approved proposals
• Develops Integration Profiles to document the solutions in detail
• Maintains the Technical Framework for the domain

Each domain is sponsored by a professional society.

The Sponsor for a domain:

• Oversees domain committee meetings
• Recruits domain professionals to act as clinical advisors for the domain committees
• Hosts or arranges facilities for meetings and teleconferences of the domain committees
• Serves as secretariat for the domain committees
• Promotes the activities of the domain by communicating to key stakeholders (including membership of the sponsoring organization) through publications, demonstrations and other methods at its disposal.
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Coordination among domains is the responsibility of the Domain Coordination Committee, composed of the co-chairs from each of the domain planning and technical committees.

See Also

Domain Committees

Domain Mailing Lists

Domain Board Reports

Domain Page Template

New Domain Application