Cardiology strategic planning

Cardiology Strategic Planning

IHE Cardiology is planning work in the following areas:

Improve information exchange between different healthcare providers by defining CDA implementation guides for different subspecialites in Cardiology (eg. Cardiac Catherization Electrophysiology)
Usage of structured data through transformation of key data elements into CDA document format for preparation of Quality-Registry submissions (e.g. NCDR-ICD, NCDR-PCI, PINNACLE)
Define workflow and data exchange in the EP Lab
Incorporate information exchange with EMR systems into cardiology workflows
Promote use of Cross-Enterprise profiles in the Cardiology field
Define profiles supporting Meaningful Use

Domain	Liason	Activity
IT Infrastructure
Patient Care Coordination		Re-use of CDA templates
Patient Care Devices	Bryan Jennings	IDCO Profile
Quality, Research, Public Health	Harry Solomon	Submission to cardiac registries Quality measure reporting for cardiac indicators
Radiology	Antje Schroeder	Re-use of workflow profiles Enhancement to imaging workflow based on cardiology use cases: Intermittently connected modalities MWL Query by Admission ID Document (CDA) references in orders and MWL Issuer of Patient ID / multiple Patient IDs (Dutch BSN, etc.)