IT Infrastructure

The IT Infrastructure Domain supports profiles which supply the necessary infrastructure for sharing healthcare information. An infrastructure interoperability component represents a common IT function that is used as a building block for a variety of use cases... a necessary ingredient, but rarely visible to the end user!! These components may be imbedded in an application, but are often deployed as a shared resource within a RHIO or Health Information Exchange.

This domain began in 2003, is sponsored by the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and currently supports 18 IT Infrastructure Profiles as well as the IT Infrastructure Technical Framework.

IT Infrastructure Committees

ITI Planning Committee

ITI Technical Committee

Timeline : 2007-2008 Development Cycle

Timeframe	Activity	Scheduled	Location
2006
Nov.	Submit Brief Profile Proposals to ITI Planning Committee (PC)	Nov. 8, 2006 - Deadline	E-mail
Nov.	PC Selects "Short List" of Profiles	Nov. 8-10, 2006	Chicago
Nov.	PC Finalizes scope of profiles - hands off to ITI Technical Committee (TC)	Nov. 20, 2006	Tcon
Dec.	TC Evaluates "Short List" of Profiles	Dec. 5-6, 2006	Chicago
2007
Jan.	TC Reports back to PC on "Short List"	Jan 4, 2007	Tcon
Jan.	PC Selects Final Profiles	Jan 4, 2007	Tcon
Jan.	PC review of scope of White Papers	Jan. 29, 2007	Tcon
Feb.	PC and TC annual joint meetng at HIMSS	Feb 28, 2007	New Orleans
Mar.	Profile development kickoff meeting (TC Meeting)	Mar 13-15, 2007	Chicago
May	Profile development meeting: finalize supplements for public comment (TC)	May 14-18, 2007	Chicago
Jun.	Publication of Public Comment Supplements	Jun 10, 2007	www.ihe.net
Jul.	Deadline for submission of public comments of profile supplements	Jul 10,2007	forums.rsna.org
Jul.	Reconciliation of public comments received (TC Meeting)	July 23-27 2007	Chicago
Aug.	Publication of Trial Implementation Supplements	Aug. 10, 2007	www.ihe.net
Aug.	Publication of Final Text Technical Framework (if appropriate)	*	www.ihe.net
2008
Jan.	Test implementations at Connectathon	TBA	Chicago

Roadmap

Significant Updates to 2006-2007 Profiles

• PIX/PDQ transactions updated to support latest HL7v3 specifications
• RFD Profile updated to latest specification for XForms

2007-2008 Work Plan (see Profile Selection below)

Profiles

• XDS Web Services Transport
• Cross-Community Access
• Web Services Infrastructure for HL7v3
• Cross-Enterprie User Authentication (Phase 1)

White Papers

• Security Risk Managment
• Web Services Roadmap
• Configuration Management
• Aggregate Data
• Meeting Privacy Principles using IHE Profiles

2008-2009+ Profile Candidates

Continue Prior Profile Work

• Web Services and SOA for Healthcare
• Cross-Community Location
• Cross-Enterprise User Authentication (Phase 2)
• Policy and Configuration Document Sharing

Advance White Papers to Profiles

• Aggregate Data Monitoring
• Configuration Management

2009-2010+ Profile Candidates

• Cross-Enterprise Ordering
• Cross-Enterprise Workflow Scheduling
• XDS Affinity Domain Configuration
• XDS Templates
• Composite Documents
• Role-Based Access Control
• Anonymization and Pseudonymization
• Mobile Security
• Master File Maintenance
• Service Discovery
• SNMP MIB's

Profile Selection

ITI Profile Proposals were submitted for the 2007-2008 Development Cycle. At the Jan 4, 2007 joint meeting of the Planning Committee and Technical Committee, the following Profile and White Paper selections were approved:

Profiles/White Papers to be developed this cycle:

Web Services Infrastructure for HL7 V3 - This work, left over from last season, will be completed as a Change Proposal - Tech Editor: Vassil Peytchev

Cross-Community Access - This profile will be started as a two-year effort, with limited Connectathon testing at the end of Year 1 - Tech Editor: Karen Witting

Cross-Enterprise User Authentication (XUA) - Promoted from a White Pape to a Profile. Scope is to profile SAML bindings for XDS Stored Query and XDS Retrieve transactions - Tech Editor: John Moehrke

XDS Web Services - To be profiled this year as a binding for the Provide & Register, Register and Retrieve transactions in XDS. This effort will introduce new versions of these transactions to be published as optional transactions - Tech Editor: Roberto Ruggeri

Configuration Management White Paper - to be developed this year by the Technical Committee - Tech Editor: Rob Horn

Implementing The Markle Patient and Consumer Principles For System Design - White Paper - to be developed this year by the Planning Committee - Tech Editor: John Moehrke

Profiles/White Papers not approved for this cycle:

Policy and Configuration Document Sharing (XDS for non-patient-centric-data) - to be left on the Roadmap for future development

Aggregate Data - This profile will be developed under a New Directions policy, with external resources and Project Manager. No MESA tests will be developed this year - Tech Editor: Floyd Eisenberg

Cross-Community Location Service - This profile to be held until next year, to enable initial efforts on the Cross-Community Access Profile to be available.

Demonstrations & Presentations

Date	Location	Event	Details
25-Feb-07 to 1-Mar-07	New Orleans	HIMSS 2007	HIMSS Interoperability Showcase
24-27-Mar-07	New Orleans	ACC Conference	ACC Interoperability Showcase
27-28-May-07	Quebec City	e-Health 2007	Interoperability Showcase, Canadian e-Health Conference
11-13-Jun-07	Chicago	IHE Workshop	IHE Workshop

See Also

Committees

ITI Vocabulary Registry and Data Dictionary

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