Eye Care

IHE Eye Care is sponsored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and manages the Eye Care Profiles and the Eye Care Technical Frameworks.

There are two committees:

• the Eye Care Planning Committee, the Eye Care Technical Committee

Timeline: 2016-2017 Development Cycle Milestones

The Timeline shows the main milestones of the development cycle, the Timeframe when they are typically expected to happen, and the actual date/time/location they have been Scheduled for this year. Specific meetings and their agendas and minutes are generally listed on the IHE Eye Care Planning Committee and IHE Eye Care Technical Committee pages.

These times are provisional and subject to change.

Dates and times are U.S. Eastern Time (Chicago).

Timeframe	Activity	Scheduled	Location
2016
Oct	Submit Brief Profile Proposals to Planning Committee (PC)	10/14	Wiki
Nov	PC Selects "Short List" of Proposals	11/4	T-Con
Dec	PC Drafts Detailed Profile Proposals for "Short Listed" Proposals, TC Completes Technical Review, and PC Makes Final Selection	12/2	T-Con
2017
Jan	PC Meets to Determine 2017 Work Items	1/6, 1/27	T-Con
Jan/Feb/Mar	PC meets to Determine IHE 2017 Marketing Activities	1/11, 1/25, 2/17, 2/22, 3/10, 3/24	T-con
March	TC Begins working on Cataract C-CDA and EC Summary profile supplements, meet 2-3 times a month on Fridays	3/3	www.ihe.net
April	TC Begins working on C-CDA eye care document workflow whitepaper(based on IHE ITI profiles), meet 2-3 times a month on Weds	4/5	www.ihe.net
May	TC Release EC Summary C-CDA profile supplement for trial implementation	5/17	www.ihe.net
May	TC Release Cataract C-CDA profile supplement for public comment	5/26	www.ihe.net
Aug	TC Release Cataract C-CDA profile supplement for trial implementation	8/11	www.ihe.net
Oct	Test implementations at Connectathon (Eye Care)	10/23-26	Chicago
Nov	AAO IHE Demonstration Showcase	11/11-14	New Orleans

Timeline: 2015-2016 Development Cycle Milestones

The Timeline shows the main milestones of the development cycle, the Timeframe when they are typically expected to happen, and the actual date/time/location they have been Scheduled for this year. Specific meetings and their agendas and minutes are generally listed on the IHE Eye Care Planning Committee and IHE Eye Care Technical Committee pages.

These times are provisional and subject to change.

Dates and times are U.S. Eastern Time (Chicago).

Timeframe	Activity	Scheduled	Location
2015
Oct	Submit Brief Profile Proposals to Planning Committee (PC)	10/14	Wiki
Nov	PC Selects "Short List" of Proposals	11/4	T-Con
Dec	PC Drafts Detailed Profile Proposals for "Short Listed" Proposals, TC Completes Technical Review, and PC Makes Final Selection	12/2	T-Con
2016
Jan	TC Profile development kickoff meeting	1/12	T-Con
Apr	TC Finalizes revised profile supplements for public comment	4/1
May	Publication of Trial Implementation Version Supplements for Comment	5/2	www.ihe.net
May	Publication of Final Text Vols 1&2	5/20	www.ihe.net
June	TC Profile development kickoff meeting, Cataract TC, every other Friday	6/3	www.ihe.net
Oct	Test implementations at Connectathon (Eye Care)	10/23-26	Chicago

Timeline: 2015-2016 Development Cycle Milestones

The Timeline shows the main milestones of the development cycle, the Timeframe when they are typically expected to happen, and the actual date/time/location they have been Scheduled for this year. Specific meetings and their agendas and minutes are generally listed on the IHE Eye Care Planning Committee and IHE Eye Care Technical Committee pages.

These times are provisional and subject to change.

Dates and times are U.S. Eastern Time (Chicago).

Timeframe	Activity	Scheduled	Location
2015
Oct	Submit Brief Profile Proposals to Planning Committee (PC)	10/18	Wiki
Nov	PC Selects "Short List" of Proposals	11/6	T-Con
Dec	PC Drafts Detailed Profile Proposals for "Short Listed" Proposals, TC Completes Technical Review, and PC Makes Final Selection	12/11	T-Con
2016
Jan	TC Profile development kickoff meeting, Refractive TC, every Tuesday	1/12	T-Con
Jan	TC Profile development kickoff meeting, U-EYECARE TC, every Wednesday	1/13	T-Con
Apr	TC Finalizes revised profile supplements for public comment	4/1
May	Publication of Trial Implementation Version Supplements for Comment	5/27	www.ihe.net
May	Publication of Final Text Vols 1&2	5/20	www.ihe.net
June	TC Profile development kickoff meeting, Cataract TC, every other Friday	6/3	www.ihe.net
Oct	Test implementations at Connectathon (Eye Care)	10/10-14	Chicago

Timeline: 2014-2015 Development Cycle Milestones

The Timeline shows the main milestones of the development cycle, the Timeframe when they are typically expected to happen, and the actual date/time/location they have been Scheduled for this year. Specific meetings and their agendas and minutes are generally listed on the IHE Eye Care Planning Committee and IHE Eye Care Technical Committee pages.

These times are provisional and subject to change.

Dates and times are U.S. Eastern Time (Chicago).

Timeframe	Activity	Scheduled	Location
2014
Oct	Submit Brief Profile Proposals to Planning Committee (PC)	10/18	Wiki
Nov	PC Selects "Short List" of Proposals	11/18	T-Con
Dec	PC Drafts Detailed Profile Proposals for "Short Listed" Proposals, TC Completes Technical Review, and PC Makes Final Selection	12/2	T-Con
2015
Jan	TC Profile development kickoff meeting	1/14-15	T-Con
Mar	TC Finalizes revised profile supplements for public comment	3/1
June	Republication of Trial Implementation Version Supplements for Comment	6/1	www.ihe.net
July	Deadline for submission of public comments on profile supplements	7/1	www.ihe.net
August	TC reconciles public comments	7/2
August	Republication of TF	8/1	www.ihe.net
Oct	Test implementations at Connectathon (Eye Care)	10/14-17	Chicago

Past Development Cycles

• EyeCare 2013-2014 Development Cycle
• EyeCare 2012-2013 Development Cycle
• EyeCare 2011-2012 Development Cycle
• EyeCare 2010-2011 Development Cycle
• EyeCare 2009-2010 Development Cycle
• EyeCare 2008-2009 Development Cycle

Roadmap

2006 - IHE Eye Care Year 1 - Focus is to initiate IHE Eye Care, building upon basic profiles of workflow, charge posting and evidence reports and begin introducing this to the vendor and user community.

2007 - IHE Eye Care Year 2 - Focus is on building upon the beginning efforts and expand participation of vendors, particularly acquisition modalities. One new profile was added, Eye Care Displayable Reports, to enhance the usability to users.

2008 - IHE Eye Care Year 3 - Focus is on expanding participation of vendors, particularly electronic health record systems, to build critical mass in IHE Eye Care and building up physician/user understanding of the needs for IHE/interoperability

2009 - IHE Eye Care Year 4 - Focus is on expanding participation of vendors and building upon the awareness/education of the physicians and by expanding usage of IHE Eye Care by extending the Framework to include a new actor, Legacy Acquisition Modality Importer, which allows physicians to use their existing devices, instead of having to purchase new devices.

2010 - IHE Eye Care Year 5 - Focus is on continuing to expand participation of vendors, both acquisition modality vendors, legacy acquisition modalities, and electronic health record systems to reach a critical mass. Work in future years will be to build in more Information Technology Infrastructure profiles into the Technical Framework.

2011 - IHE Eye Care Year 6 - Focus is on continuing to expand participation of vendors to reach a critical mass by developing a new supplement, Basic Eye Care Workflow. Also, work in future years will build Eye Care specific CDA templates.

2012 - IHE Eye Care Year 7 - Focus is on continuing to expand participation of vendors, both acquisition modalities and electronic health record systems with Basic Eye Care Workflow and to expand participation of clinicians. The focus will be on subspecialty specific CDA templates, beginning with Cataract Surgery.

2013 - IHE Eye Care Year 8 - Focus is on continuing to expand participation of electronic health record systems with the Routine Eye Evaluation CDA, and with acquisition modalities for the Basic Eye Care Workflow. The focus will be on completing the sub specialty-specific Cataract Surgery CDA.

2014 - IHE Eye Care Year 9 - Focus is on continuing to expand participation of acquisition modalities for the Basic Eye Care Workflow, and a new supplement, Small Clinic Workflow. The focus will be on revising the Routine Eye Evaluation CDA to be aligned with the c-CDA specified in Meaningful Use provisions of the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. Eye Care Strategic Planning

This documents the activities of the Eye Care domain in doing strategic planning.

The IHE Eye Care Planning Committee met at a face-to-face meeting on October 21, 2011, Orlando, to discuss strategic plans and priorities for the next 3-5 years. The IHE EC PC has defined the following priorities for the years 2012-2016:

I. Clinical Document Architecture Profiles for different areas of eye care:

• A. Cataract surgery
• B. Glaucoma
• C. Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• D. Diabetic Retinopathy

II. Education and promotional efforts to enhance the uptake and implementation of IHE Eye Care

Existing profiles will be evaluated and maintained, but the priority in future years will be on content profiles.

The IHE EC PC believed that the most fruitful areas for cross-domain liaison would be with Patient Care Coordination because their experience with CDA profiles.

2015 - IHE Eye Care Year 10 - Focus is on continuing to expand participation of acquisition modalities for the Basic Eye Care Workflow, and a new supplement to harmonize the different eye care workflows, called Unified Eye Care Workflow (U-EYECARE). Another focus will be to create a C-CDA Based Eye Care Patient Summary Record (EC-PatSum)

2016 - IHE Eye Care Year 11 - Add refractive measurements to U-EYECARE based upon JOIA XML data specification. Process CPs based upon connectathon and implementation feedback to U-EYECARE, GEE and EC-PatSum. Release U-EYECARE and CPs for Final Text. Consider the impact of FHIR on IHE Eye Care.

Current Activity

IHE Eye Care has combined the various eye care workflows into the profile named Unified Eye Care Workflow (U-EYECARE). U-EYECARE profile takes the best features of previously defined eye care workflows, combines them into one workflow profile and provides more flexibility for real world implementation models for systems such as EHRs and PACS. This profile is being updated to Final Text based upon 2015 Connectathon testing feedback.

Release new Final Text versions for volumes 1 and 2. Final Text will include U-EYECARE, incorporate change proposals (CPs) and also retire previous defined eye care workflow profiles.

Adding a new supplement to incorporate refractive devices into U-EYECARE based upon the JOIA specification. This supplement facilities the incorporation of refractive measurements in EHR systems via a XML-based data stream.

3rd Qtr. - Begin working on cataract C-CDA content profiles.

Plans are being made for the approved 2016 IHE Eye Care Connectathon, which will be held on October 10-13, 2016 at the RSNA headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Demonstrations & Presentations

Date	Location	Event	Details
10/24-27/2009	San Francisco, CA	AAO 2009	IHE Eye Care Interoperability Showcase
10/16-19/2010	Chicago, IL	AAO 2010	IHE Eye Care Interoperability Showcase
10/22-25/2011	Orlando, FL	AAO 2011	IHE Eye Care Interoperability Showcase
11/10-13/2012	Chicago, IL	AAO 2012	IHE Eye Care Interoperability Showcase
11/16-19/2013	New Orleans, LA	AAO 2013	IHE Eye Care Interoperability Showcase
10/18-21/2014	Chicago, IL	AAO 2014	IHE Eye Care Interoperability Showcase
11/14-17/2015	Las Vegas, NV	AAO 2015	IHE Eye Care Interoperability Showcase
10/15-18/2016	Chicago, IL	AAO 2016	IHE Eye Care Interoperability Showcase

Supporters and Endorsements

IHE Eye Care is sponsored by:

• American Academy of Ophthalmology

Endorsing organizations include:

• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• Macula Society

See Also

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