Profiles

IHE Integration Profiles describe the solution to a specific integration problem, and document the system roles, standards and design details for implementors to develop systems that cooperate to address that problem.

IHE Profiles are a convenient way for implementors and users to be sure they're talking about the same solution without having to restate the many technical details that ensure actual interoperability.

For convenient reference, each Profile has a short acronym.

Each domain specifies a collection of Profiles for problems directly related to their domain (see the lists below).

Alternatively, see the alphabetized index of Profiles.

IHE Cardiology Profiles

• [CATH] - Cardiac Cath Workflow integrates ordering, scheduling, imaging acquisition, storage and viewing for Cardiac Catheterization procedures
• [ECHO] - Echocardiography Workflow integrates ordering, scheduling, imaging acquisition, storage and viewing for digital echocardiography
• [ECG] - Retrieve ECG for Display provides a mechanism for broad access throughout the enterprise to electrocardiogram (ECG) documents for review purposes
• [ED] - Evidence Documents The addition of the Cardiology specific options to the Radiology ED profile
• [IDCO] - Implantable Device Cardiac Observation specifies a mechanism for the creation, transmission, and processing of discrete data elements and report attachments associated with cardiac device interrogations (observations).
• [STRESS] - Stress Testing Workflow provides the mechanism for ordering and collecting multi-modality data during diagnostic Stress testing procedures

IHE IT Infrastructure Profiles

• [CT] Consistent Time ensures system clocks and time stamps of computers in a network are well synchronized (median error less than 1 second).

• [ATNA] Audit Trail and Node Authentication describes authenticating systems using certificates and transmitting PHI-related audit events to a repository. This helps sites implement confidentiality policies.

• [RID] Request Information for Display provides simple (browser-based) read-only access to clinical information (e.g. allergies or lab results) located outside the user’s current application.

• [EUA] Enterprise User Authentication enables single sign-on by facilitating one name per user for participating devices and software.

• [PIX] Patient Identifier Cross Referencing cross-references patient identifiers between hospitals, sites, RHIOs, etc.

• [PSA] Patient Synchronized Application enables single patient selection for the user working in multiple applications on a workstation desktop. With this Integration Profile patient selection in any of the applications causes all other applications to tune to that same patient. This allows a clinician to use the application they are most familiar with to select the patient and have that selection reflected in the other applications they are using follow along.

• [PDQ] Patient Demographics Query lets applications query a central patient information server and retrieve a patient’s demographic and visit information.

• [XDS] Cross Enterprise Document Sharing registers and shares electronic health record documents between healthcare enterprises, ranging from physician offices to clinics to acute care in-patient facilities.

• [PWP] Personnel White Pages provides basic directory information on human workforce members to other workforce members and applications.

• [RFD] Retrieve Form for Data Capture enables EHR applications to directly request forms from clinical trial sponsors and public health reporting.

IHE Patient Care Coordination Profiles

• [MS] Medical Summaries defines the content and format of Discharge Summaries and Referral Notes.

• [XPHR] Exchange of Personal Health Record Content describes the content and format of summary information extracted from a PHR system for import into an EHR system, and visa versa.

• [EDR] Emergency Department Referral allows clinicians to create electronic referrals to the emergency room including the nature of the current problem, past medical history, and medications. Upon arrival of the patient to the Emergency Department, the patient is identified as a referral, and the transfer document is incorporated into the EDIS. This profile builds on medical summaries by adding structures to pass data specific for ED referrals such as the estimated time of arrival and method of transport.

• [BPPC] Basic Patient Privacy Consents provides a mechanism to record the patient privacy consent(s), a method to enforce these consents, and supports the creation of an Affinity Domain defined consent vocabulary that identify information sharing policies.

• [PPHP] Pre-procedural History and Physical describes the content and format of an electronic Preprocedural History and Physicial document.

IHE Radiology Profiles

Profiles for Workflow

• [SWF] Scheduled Workflow integrates ordering, scheduling, imaging acquisition, storage and viewing for Radiology exams.

• [PIR] Patient Information Reconciliation coordinates reconciliation of the patient record when images are acquired for unidentified (e.g. trauma), or misidentified patients.

• [PWF] Post-Processing Workflow provides worklists, status and result tracking for post-acquisition tasks, such as Computer-Aided Detection or Image Processing.

• [RWF] Reporting Workflow provides worklists, status and result tracking for reporting tasks, such as dictation, transcription and verification.

• [IRWF] Import Reconciliation Workflow manages importing images from CDs, hardcopy, etc. and reconciling identifiers to match local values.

• [PDI] Portable Data for Imaging provides reliable interchange of image data and diagnostic reports on CDs for importing,

printing, or optionally, displaying in a browser.

Profiles for Content

• [NM] Nuclear Medicine Image specifies how Nuclear Medicine images and result screens are created, exchanged, used and displayed.

• [MAMMO] Mammography Image specifies how Mammography images and evidence objects are created, exchanged, used and displayed.

• [ED] Evidence Documents specifies how data objects such as digital measurements are created, exchanged, and used.

• [SINR] Simple Image and Numeric Report specifies how Diagnostic Radiology Reports (including images and numeric data) are created, exchanged, and used.

Profiles for Presentation

• [KIN] Key Image Note lets users flag images as significant (e.g. for referring, for surgery, etc.) and add notes.

• [CPI] Consistent Presentation of Images maintains consistent intensity and image transformations between different hardcopy and softcopy devices.

• [PGP] Presentation of Grouped Procedures facilitates viewing and reporting on images for individual requested procedures (e.g. head, chest, abdomen) that an operator has grouped into a single scan.

• [FUS] Image Fusion specifies how systems creating and registering image sets and systems displaying fused images create, exchange and use the image, registration and blended presentation objects.

Profiles for Infrastructure

• [XDS-I] Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging shares images, diagnostic reports and related information across a network of care sites.

• [TCE] Teaching File and Clinical Trial Export lets users flag images and related information for automatic routing to teaching file authoring or clinical trials management systems.

• [ARI] Access to Radiology Information provides access to radiology images, reports, etc. across the hospital network.

• [ATNA] Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA) - Radiology Option defines Radiology-specific audit trail messages.

• [CHG] Charge Posting provides timely procedure details from modalities to billing systems.