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 Cardiology (CARD)
• IHE Eye Care (EYECARE)
• IHE IT Infrastructure (ITI)
• IHE Laboratory (LAB)
• IHE Anatomic Pathology (ANAPATH)
• IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC)
• IHE Patient Care Device (PCD)
• IHE Pharmacy (PHARM)
• IHE Quality, Research and Public Health (QRPH)
• IHE Radiation Oncology (RO)
• IHE Radiology (RAD)

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 concensus 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 vendor meetings within IHE
• 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
• Maintains the copyright for the IHE domain materials (TF, etc)
• ...

Coordination among domains is the responsibility of the Domain Co-chairs Committee, comprising representatives 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