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: 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
2013
Oct	Submit Brief Profile Proposals to Planning Committee (PC)	10/15	Wiki
Nov	PC Selects "Short List" of Proposals	11/15	Face to Face Meeting
Dec	PC Drafts Detailed Profile Proposals for "Short Listed" Proposals	12/13	T-Con
2014
Jan	TC Completes technical review of Detailed Proposals	1/10	T-Con
Jan	PC makes Final Selection of Proposals for this year	1/14	T-Con
Jan	TC Profile development kickoff meeting	1/21	T-Con
May	TC Finalizes profile supplements for public comment	5/28
June	Publication of Public Comment Supplements	6/28	www.ihe.net
July	Deadline for submission of public comments on profile supplements	7/26	www.ihe.net
August	TC reconciles public comments	8/2
August	Publication of CPs - released for Ballot		www.ihe.net
August	Publication of Trial Implementation Supplements	08/16	www.ihe.net
Nov	Test implementations at Connectathon (Eye Care)	10/18-21	Chicago

Timeline: 2013-2014 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
2013
Oct	Submit Brief Profile Proposals to Planning Committee (PC)	10/15	Wiki
Nov	PC Selects "Short List" of Proposals	11/15	T-Con
Dec	PC Drafts Detailed Profile Proposals for "Short Listed" Proposals	12/15	T-Con
2014
Jan	TC Completes technical review of Detailed Proposals	1/24	T-Con
Jan	PC makes Final Selection of Proposals for this year	1/25	T-Con
Jan	TC Profile development kickoff meeting	1/25	T-Con
June	TC Finalizes profile supplements for public comment	6/1
June	Publication of Public Comment Supplements	6/28	www.ihe.net
July	Deadline for submission of public comments on profile supplements	7/26	www.ihe.net
August	TC reconciles public comments	8/2
August	Publication of CPs - released for Ballot		www.ihe.net
August	Publication of Trial Implementation Supplements	08/16	www.ihe.net
Nov	Test implementations at Connectathon (Eye Care)	10/18-21	Chicago

Timeline: 2012-2013 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
2012
Nov	Submit Brief Profile Proposals to Planning Committee (PC)	11/9/2012	Wiki
Dec	PC Selects "Short List" of Proposals	12/7/2012	T-Con
Dec	PC Drafts Detailed Profile Proposals for "Short Listed" Proposals	12/21/2012	T-Con
2013
Jan	TC Completes technical review of Detailed Proposals	1/24/2013	T-Con
Jan	PC makes Final Selection of Proposals for this year	1/25/2013	T-Con
Jan	TC Profile development kickoff meeting	1/25/2013	T-Con
July	TC Finalizes profile supplements for public comment	7/23/2013
August	Publication of Public Comment Supplements	8/28/2013	www.ihe.net
September	Deadline for submission of public comments on profile supplements	9/29/2013	www.ihe.net
October	TC reconciles public comments	10/15/2013
October	Publication of CPs - released for Ballot		www.ihe.net
November	Publication of Trial Implementation Supplements	11/15/2013	www.ihe.net
November	Test implementations at Connectathon (Eye Care)	11/16-19/2013	New Orleans

Previous Timelines

• Timeline: 2011-2012 Development Cycle Milestones
• Timeline: 2010-2011 Development Cycle Milestones
• Timeline: 2009-2010 Development Cycle Milestones
• Timeline: 2008-2009 Development Cycle Milestones

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 subspecialty-specific Cataract Surgery CDA.

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.

Current Activity

IHE Eye Care has been working on CDA Templates. The Trial Implementation Version for the General Eye Evaluation was published in summer 2012 and available here under Technical Frameworks. Correction Proposals are accepted by the Technical Committee for consideration.

The Technical Committee is also working on a Cataract Surgery CDA Template. Comments are accepted by the Technical Committee for consideration.

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

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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