David S. Mendelson MD, Moderator: Spouse, Employee, Novartis AG Advisory Board, Nuance Communications, Inc Advisory Board, General Electric Company Advisory Board, Toshiba Corporation

Kinson Ho, Presenter: Employee, Agfa-Gevaert Group

David A. Clunie MBBS, Presenter: Owner, PixelMed Publishing LLC

Christopher Lindop, Presenter: Employee, General Electric Company

1) Value of IHE with content and vendor neutral integration. 2) How content neutral clinical information is managed with a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA). 3) Planning for a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) or expand upon an existing VNA system to support both imaging and non-imaging content and systems. 4) The benefit of using IHE Imaging profiles for cross-enterprise and cross-community image sharing”.  

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is a joint initiative of healthcare professionals and industry vendors to improve the way clinical systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as webservices, DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care. Established in 1997, the IHE Radiology Committee, a development domain of IHE, has profiled the clinical use cases to develop a framework of interoperability, known as the IHE Integration Profiles. Integration Profiles are developed specifically to be "Vendor Neutral". The first Integration Profile developed by IHE is known as Scheduled Workflow. It specifies how imaging departmental workflow can operate seamlessly between vendors. The Integration Profiles are maintained and published by IHE in the IHE Technical Framework. With the introduction of Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) in 2005, IHE has extended the definition of "Neutral"  to include non-imaging content storage in healthcare.   This course will specifically deliver and review the IHE Integration Profiles developed by IHE Radiology and the other IHE domain committees profile which can be used by healthcare professionals and the industry for the interoperability specification, procurement and installation of a "Content" Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA).  

Mendelson, D, Ho, K, Clunie, D, Lindop, C, Using IHE Profiles to Plan for Medical Imaging.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/13013320.html