Conformity Assessment Committee

Scope and Current Work

The IHE Conformity Assessment (CAsC) Committee is responsible to manage for the IHE International Board, the IHE Conformity Assessment Scheme (CAS), which forms the basis for IHE Conformity Assessment Programs. This program proposes since 2015 official testing of conformance to IHE Profiles.

The Test reports for products that have completed Conformity Assessment testing administered by IHE Authorized Testing Laboratories are available here [1]. These vendors may associate to their products the IHE Conformity Assessment Logo, as shown here [2].

Conformity Assessment occurs under a strict process performed by ISO/IEC 17025 Accredited Testing Laboratories. This process is specified by the IHE CAS Scheme based on ISO/EC Standard. It consists of two volumes:

==> IHE CAS-1 [3] defines the necessary processes for establishing and managing an IHE Conformity Assessment Program and for accrediting and operating testing labs.

==> IHE CAS-2 [4] defines the standardized test methods for assessing conformity to individual IHE Profiles.

In 2016, 9 IHE Profiles have been added. The IHE Profiles covered for conformity assessment are:

• Consistent Time (CT)

• Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA)

• Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b)

• Patient Identification Cross-referencing (PIX)

• Patient Identification Cross-referencing HL7v3 (PIXV3)

• Patient Demographics Query (PDQ)

• Patient Demographics Query HL7v3 (PDQV3)

• Cross-Community Access (XCA)

• Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD)

• Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I)

• Cross-Community Access for Imaging (XCA-I)

• Patient Administration Management (PAM)

• Laboratory Analytical Workflow (LAW)

• Device Enterprise Communication (DEC)

• Point-of-Care Infusion Verification (PIV)

• • Note: Two templates are defined within IHE CAS-2. They are provided below for convenience as MS Word files:

• External Test Report Template [5]
• Summary Test Report Template [6]

Current Meetings

Some key meetings are shown here for convenience. See the IHE Calendar for the official listing of all T-Cons and meetings.

Meeting notifications and reminders are sent to the Committee Mailing list. T-Cons may be added or re-scheduled periodically.

Proposed Agenda Topics will be scheduled for discussion at upcoming meetings.

Dates and Times are Central Time (Chicago UTC-0600) for T-Cons and local time for face-to-face meetings.

Date	Time	Location	Topic	Agenda	Minutes
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2006.10.19	0900-1730	Chicago	Profile Selection and other topics
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