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Why IHE Eye Care?
For the Clinician Using the work already done by IHE Eye Care
means you get all the clinicalinformation you need when you need
it, where you need it, accurately integrated into a single system,
suchas your electronic health record system. Encourage your
administrator to leverage IHE to save you time andresources by
factoring in IHE connectivity (as evidenced by an IHE integration
statement and a DICOMconformance statement) in your decisions to
purchase or upgrade equipment.
For the Practice Administrator Using the work already done by
IHE Eye Care means improvedworkflow in the office. It means
minimizing patient identification errors, and reducing billing
cycles. You wontworry about archiving images or entering patient
name for each instrument the work is done. RequestIHE connectivity
(an IHE integration statement and a DICOM conformance statement) in
every purchasecontract or equipment upgrade.
For the IT Staff Get out of the infinite interface development
cycle for every type of instrument. Using thework already done by
IHE Eye Care means software upgrades will not break interfaces.
Interfacespecifications are already written, and vendor-to-vendor
testing is done. Ask for IHE connectivity (an IHEintegration
statement) in every contract.
What is IHE?
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise is a professional
collaboration of medical societies, clinicians andvendors. IHE was
organized to find practical solutions to the complex issues of
clinical system integration.
IHE does not develop standards. IHE promotes open standards such
as DICOM, HL7 and Webtechnologies. IHE refines interface
specifications using these open standards, rigorously tests
vendorimplementations, and promotes their use through Scientific
Session demonstrations and education.
IHE accelerates the adoption of the Electronic Healthcare Record
(EHR), which also enables sharing ofclinical data between the
hospital(s), offices and clinics. This cross-location sharing of
data is important inophthalmology multi-practice settings.
All of this is done at no charge to you, the end user. J ust ask
for IHE from your vendors (as evidenced by anIHE Integration
Statement)!
Where is IHE now?
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is a multi-year,
international effort sponsored by the AmericanAcademy of
Ophthalmology (AAO), the Radiological Society of North America
(RSNA) and the HealthcareInformation and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS). There are now eight domains in IHE, only oneof which is
ophthalmology. In other words, IHE is integrating all of a patients
clinical information, not just thepatients eye history.
IHE Eye Care has rapidly gained momentum in Eye Care, under the
sponsorship of the AAO. The IHE Year1 Showcase at the AAO 2006
Annual Meeting in Las Vegas was very successful with a few hundred
peopleattending presentations and hands-on demonstrations!
The IHE Eye Care Connectathon is a gathering of vendors
conducting vendor-to-vendor testing. InOctober 2007, 12 vendors
brought their products to be tested for connectivity with the other
vendors in
Chicago.
How do I learn more about IHE?It is in your best interest to
leverage the work already completed by the IHE Eye Care initiative,
and to helpguide its future development. Consider joining the IHE
Eye Care Group (e-mail [email protected]) to be addedto the listserv and
for educational sessions and Web seminars. Visit www.aao.org for
IHE Eye Care specificinformation, or www.ihe.net for additional IHE
general information. Or, request IHE Information by sending
an e-mail to [email protected].
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