ITI Strategy and Liaison Activity

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This page documents the activities of the ITI domain in doing strategic planning.

Categories and capabilities

Categories

The IHE IT Infrastructure (ITI) domain has defined the following categories of profiles and organized the existing profiles (as of 2010) into this set of categories. It is believed that a few additional categories are appropriate for other domains but this is the minimal set that ITI has defined for profiles within the ITI domain.

Category	Description	ITI profiles (2013)
Patient Administration	Profiles in the Patient Administration category support the management of patient identities. This includes the ability to look up, cross-reference, update, remove, merge, link and general management of patient identities.	PIX, PDQ, PAM, XCPD, PIX/PDQ HL7 v3, XPID
Provider Directory	Profiles in the Provider Directory category support the management of information about provider and healthcare organizations. This includes the ability to find locations, services, organizational relationships, contacts, schedules and other information.	PWP, HPD, CSD
Health Document Sharing	Profiles in the Health Document Sharing category support the ability to share patient specific healthcare information within and across Enterprises. This includes the ability to submit, locate/list, push, pull and retrieve patient specific healthcare information.	XCA, XDM, XDR, XDS, XDS-SD, MPQ, RID, XCF, MHD
Security and Privacy	Profiles in the Security and Privacy category support the ability to ensure that healthcare information is managed consistent with a reasonable set of security and privacy policies.	ATNA, BPPC, XUA, DSG, EUA, DEN, IUA
Workflow Enablers	Profiles in the Workflow Enablers category support standard sequences for performing workflow activities.	DRR, DSUB, NAV, PSA, RFD, XDW
Support Management	Profiles in the support management category support the ability to share information needed for interoperable healthcare management such as clinical coding, technical or IT management information	CT, SVS

Capabilities

The IHE IT Infrastructure (ITI) domain has identified the following areas of expertise and weaknesses.

Category	Areas of expertise	Areas of weakness
Technology	Security, Privacy, XDS, SOAP, Directories, Workflow, Transports, Network, Media, email, Metadata, Web Wervices	HL7 v2 & v3 messaging
Standards Development Organizations	W3C, OASIS, HL7	DICOM, ISO
Geographic Regions	North America, Europe	Asia, South America

ITI Liaisons

The following table describes the liaisons from ITI for IHE development committees.

Domain Committee Liaison Reports

Domain	Liason
Anatomic Pathology
Cardiology
Eye Care	Rob Horn
Laboratory
Pathology
Patient Care Coordination	Keith Boone
Patient Care Devices	Dan Trainor
Pharmacy	Geert Clays
Quality, Research, Public Health	Lori Fourquet
Radiation Oncology
Radiology
Dental	Rob Horn: using XDR