Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

• IHE Validation Process
• Connectathon 2005

G. Claeys Vendor co-chair IHE Europe Agfa
Healthcare
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IHE Validation process

• Goal
• Validate implementations of IHE TF in products
• Approach
• IHE is not a certification authority
• IHE stimulates auto-validation
• Vendors are responsible for validating and
  documenting IHE implementations
• IHE provide tools and infrastructure
• IHE Validation tols
• Mesa toolkit
• Connectathon
• IHE Integration statement

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MESA test toolkit

• Software library
• Emulate the various actors in the different
  implementation profiles
• Single product, single vendor testing
• Pre-requisite for connectathon participation
• Implementers submit test logs prior to
  connectathon

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Connectathon

• Connectathon connectivity marathon
• 1 week validation session in Europe, USA and
  Japan
• Validate the Integration Profiles for a
  particular IHE demo
• Pre-requisite for participating at IHE demos
• Multi-domain Integration Profiles
• Rad, ITI, Lab, Cardio
• Multi-vendor, multi products
• 2002 33 companies, 59 systems
• 2003 48 companies, 86 systems
• 2004 50 companies, 100 systems
• HIS, RIS, LIS, Cardiac,Pacs, Modality vendors
• European connectathons
• Paris, France (April 2002)
• Aachen, Germany (March 2003)
• Padua, Italy (March/April 2004)
• Results are published on www.ihe-europe.org

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IHE Europe Connecathon 2003 Participants
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IHE Integration Statement

• Document the IHE implementation in products
• Support validation on paper
• Content
• List of supported actors
• List of supported integration profiles (per
  actor)

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Connectathon 2005 - Scope

• IHE Rad profiles
• yr1 -gt yr6
• 12 existing 2 new
• IHE ITI profiles
• yr 1, yr2
• 5 existing 4 new
• IHE Lab profiles
• yr 1, yr2
• 1 existing 4 new
• IHE Cardio profiles
• yr1
• 3 new
• Total 31 profiles

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Connectathon 2005 Venue

• Location
• Noordwijk, Netherlands
• 15 km from The Hague
• Time
• 25-29 April 2005

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Connectathon 2005 - Schedule

• Registration deadline
• January 2005
• Participants workshop
• IHE Educational Event
• 3 days, week 7 Feb 2005
• Noordwijk, Netherlands
• Connectathon
• 25-29 April 2005
• Noordwijk, Netherlands

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More information.

• IHE Web sites
• http//ihe-europe.org
• http//www.rsna.org/IHE
• http//www.acc.org/quality/ihe.htm.
• Technical Frameworks
• ITI V1.0, RAD V5.5, LAB V1.0, CARDIO V1.0
• Non-Technical Brochures
• IHE Europe Business Case
• IHE Fact Sheet and FAQ
• IHE Integration Profiles Guidelines for Buyers
• IHE Connectathon Results
• Vendor Products Integration Statements