Education Workgroup

Charter

The Education workgroup started as an initiative of the IHE International Board in 2012. On 2014-11-05 it was formally set up as a subgroup of the Global Deployment Coordination Committee (GDC), see the minutes.

Current Work

Users and vendors are increasingly calling out for support in implementation in many ways. Consequently questions arise: What kind of help is needed? Which kinds of services do we see? Which knowledge and skills are needed? Who can do what?

The Education workgroup explores the path to "Certified Professionals" in the IHE space (CP IHE). On that path we will define business outcomes, content, methods and procedures for assessment and certification. Very likely a modular approach will emerge, from the "Basic" and "Advanced" to the "Expert" level. See you there!!

A first set of concepts were captured into a 2014 white paper. From here the intention is to gradually progress towards an operative certification scheme over the next years.

ICP Drafts

The term "IHE Certified Professional" (ICP) was agreed to be a used to describe IHE related skills of a person. As a first step in Q1 2015 we want to develop a small series of ICP profiles. This exercise will help us to better understand what an ICP actually is and how this activity fits into IHE as a whole.

The "IHE Certified Professional Foundation Level" (ICP Foundation Level) may be as a first step. The "IHE Certified Professional Document Sharing" (ICP Document Sharing, working title) is an example for an advanced set of skills, building on and extending the "foundation" into a specific direction. An "ICP Imaging" may evolve as well, also as an advanced skill profile. We still need to learn in which way a number of modules provides a useful whole.

This work is in part drawing from the way DICOM defines profesional expertise: http://www.siim.org/?page=become_ciip

Go here for the drafts of ICP profiles:

CP IHE Foundation (first raw draft)

CP IHE Document Sharing (very early, needs more work)

Teleconferences and Meetings

Meetings take place on IHE webex

Dates and Times are Central Time (Chicago). Be aware that this group covers many timezones. A conversion table may help.

Date	Time	Location	Topic	Agenda	Minutes
2015-04-13	9-10am CT	[1]	Education workgroup call	Agenda	Minutes
2015-01-12	9:30-11:00am CT	WebEx	Education workgroup call	Agenda	Minutes
2012-10-02	9-10:30 am	Teleconference	Kickoff Meeting/Review of Charter	[Agenda]	Minutes-

Working Documents

• Education Workgroup shared space on Google Drive

Email Distribution List

email exchange is via the reflector education-workgroup@ihe.net of our Google group. To join the group you can use your google account. Alternatively please get in contact with stefan.sauermann@technikum-wien.at to be invited.

Related Groups

Global Deployment Coordination Committee (GDC)

IHE International Board

Committees