1. January 2012IHE Europe 1 INTEGRATING THE HEALTHCARE ENTERPISE Morten Bruun-Rasmussen, MEDIQ Charles Parisot, GE Healthcare, IHE International Board Vilnius, Lithuania. January 26 th 2012

2. Interoperability: From a problem to a solution 2 Profile Development & testing eHealth Projects 2 Project Specific Extensions IHTSDO IETF Profiling Organizations are well established Base Standards

3. 3 IHE: Connecting Standards to Care Healthcare professionals work with industry Coordinate implementation of standards to meet clinical and administrative needs  Clinicians and HIT professionals identify the key interoperability problems they face  Providers and industry work together to develop and make available standards-based and tested specifications  Implementers follow common guidelines in purchasing and integrating effective systems IHE: A forum for agreeing on how to implement standards and processes for making it happen

4. IHE Europe & IHE National IHE Europe & IHE National IHE International 4 Standards Adoption Process Document Use Case Requirements Identify available standards ( e.g. HL7, DICOM, IETF, OASIS) Develop technical specifications Testing at Connectathons IHE Demonstrations Products with IHE Profiles Timely access to information Easy to integrate products

5. 5 13 Years of Steady Evolution 1998 – 2011 The IHE Development Domains Pharmacy Since 2009 Pathology since 2006 Radiation Oncology since 2004 Radiology since 1998 Cardiology since 2004 Patient Care Devices since 2005 Patient Care Coordination since 2004 Eye Care since 2006 Quality Research & Public Health since 2006 Laboratory since 2004 (Healthcare) IT Infrastructure since 2003 since 2008 Today over 100 Profiles for Interop. within the Enterprise & National -Regional Health Info Exchange At Home

6. 6 International Growth of IHE France  Local Deployment, National Extensions  Promotional & Live Demonstration Events  Over 400 Organizational Members (see www.ihe.net/governance) USA Germany Italy Japan UK Canada Taiwan Netherlands Spain Austria Pragmatic global standards harmonization + best practices sharing Australia China Turkey Switzerland 199920002001200220032004 2005200620072009200820102011

7. 7 Interoperability Testing Needs an Ecosystem Document Use Case Requirements Identify available standards ( e.g. HL7, DICOM, IETF, OASIS) Develop technical specifications Testing at Connectathons IHE Demonstrations Products with IHE Timely access to information Easy to integrate products

8. 8 IHE Connectathon Open invitation to vendor and other implementers community Advanced testing tools (GAZELLE) Testing organized and supervised by project management team Thousands of cross-vendor tests performed Results recorded and published

9. 9 IHE Connectathons 2011 Connectathons: Chicago, USA, January 17-21, 2011 Chicago, USA, January 17-21, 2011 Pisa, Italy, April 11-15, 2011 Pisa, Italy, April 11-15, 2011 Australia, July 2011 Australia, July 2011 Japan, October 2011 Japan, October 2011 Next EU Connectathons: Bern, Switzerland, May 2012 Istanbul, Turkey, April 2013 Massive yearly events : 70-80 vendors 250-300 engineers 100-150 systems ………tested in 5 days ………tested in 5 days

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