Profiles
IHE Integration Profiles describe a specific integration problem, and document the equipment roles, standards and design details for vendors to implement products that cooperate to address that problem. Integration Profiles offer a convenient way for vendors and users to reference the functionality defined in the IHE Technical Framework without having to restate all of the detail regarding IHE actors and transactions. For convenient reference, each Profile has a short acronym.
Each domain manages a collection of Profiles shown below. Alternatively, there is an alphabetized index of Profiles.
IHE Radiology Profiles
- [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.
- [CPI] - Consistent Presentation of Images maintains consistent intensity and image transformations between different hardcopy and softcopy devices.
- [XDS-I] - Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging supports sharing DICOM images, diagnostic reports and related information across a network of care sites.
- [TCE] - Teaching File and Clinical Trial Export lets users flag DICOM images and related information for automatic routing to teaching file authoring or clinical trials management systems.
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IHE Cardiology Profiles
- [CATH] - Cardiac Cath Workflow ...
- [ECHO] - Echocardiography Workflow ...
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IHE IT Infrastructure Profiles
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- [CT] Concistent Time
The Consistent Time Integration Profile (CT) provides a means to ensure that the system clocks and time stamps of the many computers in a network are well synchronized. This profile specifies synchronization with a median error less than 1 second. This is sufficient for most purposes.
The Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA) Integration Profile establishes security measures which, together with the Security Policy and Procedures of the enterprise, provide patient information confidentiality, data integrity and user accountability. The Audit Trail and Node Authentication Integration Profile requires the use of bi-directional certificate-based node authentication for connections to and from each node, and requires that events concerning PHI use are recorded and transmitted to a repository where they can be monitored to detect indications of inappropriate activity.
The Retrieve Information for Display Integration Profile (RID) provides simple and rapid read-only access to patient-centric clinical information that is located outside the user’s current application but is important for better patient care (for example, access to lab reports from radiology department). It supports access to existing persistent documents in well-known presentation formats such as CDA (Level 1), PDF, JPEG, etc. It also supports access to specific key patient-centric information such as allergies, current medications, summary of reports, etc. for presentation to a clinician. It complements workflows with access from within the users’ on-screen workspace or application to a broad range of information.
Enterprise User Authentication Profile (EUA) – This defines a means to establish one name per user that can then be used on all of the devices and software that participate in this integration profile. It greatly facilitates centralized user authentication management and provides users with the convenience and speed of a single sign-on. This profile leverages Kerberos (RFC 1510) and the HL7 CCOW standard (user subject).
The Patient Identifier Cross-referencing Integration Profile (PIX) is targeted at healthcare enterprises of a broad range of sizes (hospital, a clinic, a physician office, etc.). It supports the cross-referencing of patient identifiers from multiple Patient Identifier Domains.
The Patient Synchronized Applications Profile (PSA) 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.
The Patient Demographics Query Profile (PDQ) provides ways for multiple distributed applications to query a central patient information server for a list of patients, based on user-defined search criteria, and retrieve a patient’s demographic (and, optionally, visit or visit-related) information directly into the application.
The Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing IHE Integration Profile facilitates the registration, distribution and access across health enterprises of patient electronic health records. Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) is focused on providing a standards-based specification for managing the sharing of documents between any healthcare enterprise, ranging from a private physician office to a clinic to an acute care in-patient facility.
- [PWP] Personell White Pages
The Personnel White Pages (PWP) Profile provides access to basic directory information on human workforce members to other workforce members within the enterprise. This information has broad use among many clinical and non-clinical applications across the healthcare enterprise.
IHE Laboratory Profiles
IHE Patient Care Coordination Profiles
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- [MS] Medical Summaries pdf
This profile defines the content sections for Discharge Summaries and Referral Notes. It uses HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Release 2 and Care Record Summary as its base standard and constrains this to level 3 encoding for medications, allergies and problem lists.
Trial Implementation
This profile describes the content and format of summary information extracted from a phr system for import into an ehr system, and visa versa. The purpose of this profile is to support interoperability between phr systems used by patients and ehr systems used by healthcare providers.
This profile 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 onmedical summary adding structures to pass data specific for ed referral such as estimated time of arrival and transport method.
- [BPPC] Basic Patient Privacy Consent pdf
This profile allows affinity domains to create a vocabulary of codes that identify policies with respect to information sharing. Each policy should identify which functional roles may access a document.
This profile allows clincians to prepare an electronic representation of a Preprocedural History and Physicial document. It is similar to a Medical Summary document and shares methods for conveying structured data for medications, allergies and problem, but additionally provides mechanisms to represent more specific detail needed for preprocedural care.