For nearly 20 years, IHE has pursued the mission of driving adoption of interoperability standards in healthcare. From the beginning, that work has involved developing technical specifications, called IHE profiles, and testing systems that have implemented them at peer-to-peer testing events called Connectathons. Hundreds of health IT systems at healthcare sites around the world have […]
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In Memoriam William (Bill) Majurski The IHE community was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our beloved colleague, William (Bill) Majurski, on Nov. 14th. Bill served in the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Software and Systems Division, Software Interoperability Group as the Project Lead and primary software conformance tool designer and […]
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IHE International Statement on the COVID-19 Pandemic Like every organization involved in healthcare, and indeed as all citizens around the globe, IHE International’s leadership has been closely monitoring the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus as it has become a declared global pandemic. IHE International has taken measures consistent with the guidance of the WHO and […]
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Inside IHE Webinar Series 2018 Inside IHE is a regular series of webinars presented by leaders of IHE standards development activities to inform the healthcare community about IHE, engage interested stakeholders and prepare developers and implementers to leverage IHE solutions to achieve interoperability in healthcare. Information and registration for upcoming webinars and recordings of past […]
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Project Gemini, named after a historic U.S. spaceflight program, leverages the combined strength of HL7 and IHE to implement HL7 FHIR® and advance healthcare interoperability. IHE profiles facilitate the implementation of standards, like FHIR, necessary to achieve interoperability. HL7 FHIR offers an innovative base standard that enables the acquisition and exchange of healthcare data using […]
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Contributors: Raymond Peter Zambuto, CCE-e FHIMSS FACCE, Paul Sherman, CCE FACCE, Elliot B. Sloane, PhD CCE FACCE FHIMSS, and Todd Cooper The IHE Patient Care Devices (PCD) domain traces its origins to 2001 when a task force of the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) began working with IHE’s Strategic Development Committee (SDC) to develop a […]
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Written by Niki Wirsz The inception of the IHE “start-up” goes back to October 13-14, 1998 when RSNA and HIMSS organized the first IHE workshop hosting 13 (!) lucky companies as this slightly stained old piece of paper shows: The main question to us vendors was quite simple and challenging at the same time: why […]
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IHE and HL7 FHIR® continue to collaborate on interoperability initiatives. Firely will host the fifth DevDays event in Amsterdam from November 14-16, 2018. Speakers at the event will discuss a variety of FHIR-related topics, including how IHE and FHIR work together. On November 16, Mauro Zanardini, an Integration and Testing Manager for Consorzio Arsenàl.IT and […]
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Healthcare interoperability – the key to improving communication, collaboration, efficiencies and patient outcomes – is taking another step forward for interoperability within. IHE® and HL7® are increasingly working together to find effective ways to improve interoperability in health IT. As a sign of that collaboration, IHE had a strong presence at the HL7 FHIR […]
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The potential of the rapidly evolving HL7 FHIR standards to revolutionize the way health information is acquired, managed, shared and used continues to be widely recognized across the industry. As part of its longstanding collaborative relationship with HL7, IHE International is working to help realize that potential and hasten the advancement and adoption of FHIR […]
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