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.

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

• IHE Radiology (RAD)
• IHE Cardiology (CARD)
• IHE IT Infrastructure (ITI)
• IHE Laboratory (LAB)
• IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC)
• IHE Patient Care Devices (PCD)
• IHE Eyecare (EYE?)
• IHE Radiation Oncology (RO)

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 proposals for new problems/profiles.
• Selects proposals for technical/effort evaluation by the Technical Committee
• Selects 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
• Reviews profile proposals from the Planning Committee for feasibility and estimated effort
• Builds concensus on the appropriate standards-based approaches to selected proposals
• Develops Integration Profiles to document in detail the solution the agreed solution to the selected proposals
• Maintains the Technical Framework for the domain

Each domain is sponsored by a professional society...

Coordination among domains is the responsibility of the Domain Co-chairs Committee, comprising representatives from each of the domain planning and technical committees.