IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Canada

 

AGENDA DAY 1

To look at the potential for Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) and electronic health records (EHR).

TIME PROGRAM
8:30 a.m. Registration - Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Welcome Message - Overview of Day 1
SESSION 1 - INTRODUCTION TO THE IHE
9:15 a.m.

This session will provide a background about how IHE integrates international standards such as HL7, DICOM, W3C, to support the goal of interoperability. It will introduce the IHE integration profile development cycle and concepts: IHE actors, transactions, integration profiles, and Connectathon.

Speakers:

  • Nogah Haramati, Chief of Radiology, Professor, Clinical Radiology & Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Montefiore Medical Center [Presentation]
  • Charles Parisot, Manager, Architecture and Standards, GE Healthcare
  • Kevin O'Donnell, Senior. Manager, System Solutions, Toshiba Medical Systems
10:30 a.m.

Break

SESSION 2 - OVERVIEW OF IHE DOMAINS
10:45 a.m.

This session will provide an overview of existing and emerging IHE domains.

Speakers:

  • Didi Davis, Director, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
  • Glen F. Marshall, Health Informatics Architect Siemens Medical Solutions
Luncheon Speaker
11:45 a.m. Lunch and Speaker

IHE, SOA, OHF and CHI: How these Acronyms Will Have a Major Impact on Health Informatics in Canada
IHE offers a new and common language for vendors, providers and administrators to communicate their requirements for health interoperability.

This presentation places IHE in context of health IT evolution over the last few years, looks at how Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are being used to implement IHE, and the relationship between IHE and the Canada Health Infoway's EHRS. Lastly, Glenn will describe IBM's Open Healthcare Foundation open source contribution and its value to software vendors wanting to take advantage of IHE.

Speaker:
  • Glenn Deen, Project Leader, Healthcare Information Research Division, IBM Almaden Research Centre [Presentation]
SESSION 3 - THE CONNECTATHON: IHE’S CONFORMANCE TESTING PROCESS
1:15 p.m. This session will go into depth about the IHE Connectathon process for testing conformance with integration profiles.

Speaker:
SESSION 4 - THE INFOWAY STANDARDS COLLABORATIVE AND IHE
1:45 p.m. Information from Canada’s biggest health informatics standards player on what the IHE means to them and their standards vision.

Speaker:
SESSION 5 - IHE and the Pan-Canadian Interoperable EHR
2:15 p.m. A panel composed of healthcare IT leaders will discuss the direction that the Pan-Canadian Interoperable EHR should take, and the part that IHE should play in that future.

Moderator: José Mussi, Partner, JRS Partners Inc.

Participants:
  • Shelly Bond, Sales Executive, Eclipsys Corporation
  • Dennis Giokas, Chief Technology Officer, Canada Health Infoway Inc.
  • David Heaney, Project Manager, DICOM and IHE Support, McKesson Information Solutions, Medical Imaging Group
  • David Koff, Staff Radiologist, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre; Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
  • Dr. James MacLean, Executive Lead, Primary Health Care Team, Ontario Ministry of Heath and Long-Term Care
  • Charles Parisot, Manager, Architecture and Standards, GE Healthcare
  • Michel Pawlicz, Global Solutions Manager, Agfa Healthcare
3:45 p.m. Break
SESSION 6 - IHE IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCES
4:00 p.m.

Speakers will have 10 - 15 minutes to describe their experiences implementing IHE and providing tips for success.

Speakers:

5:15 p.m. Close of Day 1 agenda

Subject to change