HISAC IHE Seminar June 2008

HISAC, and the Ministry of Health are pleased to announce the following seminars on the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) framework. The IHE Framework has not been endorsed in New Zealand but there is considerable interest within the health sector for such a framework for New Zealand. We want to raise the awareness and understanding of the IHE Framework and its relevance to e-Health implementation, how it might be applied in New Zealand and the value of doing so.
More information on IHE and the IHE framework

These events are brought to you in conjunction with HL7 Australia and the NZ HL7 User Group (NZHUG), and will include an overview of IHE and an in-depth understanding of XDS, its structure and capabilities. This seminar will be delivered by Chris Lindop, a distinguished IHE expert and Interoperability Program Manager at GE Healthcare from the USA.

Presentations

Presentations from the day are available at Slideshare.net.

Part 1. Introduction to IHE

IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care. IHE aims for systems to be able to communicate with one another better, to be easier to implement, and to enable care providers to use information more effectively.

Internationally, interest and participation in IHE has been steadily growing. IHE is well established in many parts of the globe. IHE now has broad interest as vendors and purchasers experience the value of practically demonstrated system interoperability. IHE has been in Australia since 2004 and now includes the annual "Interoperability Showcase" at the HIC Conferences which has become an increasingly important interoperability event in Australia.

This seminar is directed at a managerial, CIO, business type audience as well as people in technical roles who have no background knowledge of IHE.

Programme Part I

Seminar Introduction (David Hay)
HISAC (Dougal McKechnie)
Introduction to IHE How IHE Helps
Vendors & Purchasers (Chris Lindop)
National Health Innovation Institute(Malcolm Pollock)
Connected Health (Ross McKenna)
Questions and Discussion

Part 2. IHE XDS "Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing" Seminar

IHE's "Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing" ("XDS") allows distribution and access of clinical documents across different care settings in healthcare enterprises. XDS is an industry-developed architecture which is extensible to support both point-to-point exchange as well shared documents which "follow" the patient through different care settings. XDS uses a registry/repository approach for accessing clinical documents, rather than a centralised EHR model. It easily supports distributed and organically grown healthcare systems.

XDS is rapidly gaining interest around the world with some of the US Regional Health Information Organisation ("RHIO"s) deploying XDS in their system architectures. XDS is being implemented for radiology image sharing across Canada and there are several early implementations in Europe. A substantial number of vendors are "XDS-ready" and have tested their products in US and European IHE "Connectathons". XDS uses a number of communications and data standards. It fully incorporates HL7 CDA. This seminar is directed at a technical audience.

Programme Part II

Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 June 2008 )

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