Webinar Series for Connectathon Participants
A series of webinars designed to provide technical information for potential participants in the IHE North America 2007 Connectathon and related demonstration events has been scheduled. Each session will be given by technical domain experts and will allow time for questions and answers. Participation is free, but participants are required to register via Webex in advance. Go to the Webex page at http://rsna.webex.com and click on the "EVENT CENTER" tab to register.
IHE Canada is an open, not for profit organization that promotes
and facilitates the adoption of IT standards among
Canada
’s healthcare community. It is being created
based on the same guiding principles and
values used by other existing IHE initiatives around the world, in particular
the original organization
sponsored by HIMSS and RSNA in the
United States
.
IHE Canada is made up of professionals interested improving the quality
of patient care in
Canada
.
IHE Canada acknowledges the contribution of the Canadian
Association of Radiologists (CAR) and the Information Technology Association
of Canada (ITAC) in bringing the achievements of IHE to the
attention of Canada’s Healthcare
Community and initiating the movement in Canada.
The IHE movement has enjoyed success in other countries
due in a large measure to the fact that those
who have driven the initiative have consciously chosen to avoid creating
a top-heavy bureaucratic structure.
It is a principle of IHE Canada to limit its hierarchical organization
as much as possible and ensure the
rapid and cooperative advancement of interoperable IT solutions in the
Canadian healthcare industry.
Participation in IHE Canada shall be open to anyone
interested in collaborating and contributing to
the success of the organization. All members are volunteers and IHE
Canada cannot be responsible
for any costs associated with their participation in any IHE Canada
activity and/or working committees.
COCIR Supports The Use of IHE for
Interoperability Conformance Testing
The following paper from COCIR ( European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry) Supports the use of IHE for interoperability conformance testing. COCIR* position on the certification of Healthcare IT product interoperability (make this the link to the paper)
The objective of this position paper is to contribute to ensuring an interoperability conformance testing process which is trustworthy and helps avoid costly retesting and duplicate development of testing and validation tools in multiple jurisdictions over Europe.
The paper also explains the difference between the Conformance Testing and Certification processes which are often confused.
http://www.cocir.org/uploads/documents/-22-cocir_certification_on_interoperability_position_paper_fin_071015.pdf
2006-2007 Supplement for Public Comment - Comments due September 15th, 2006
The IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee has published the following supplement and white papers to the IHE ITI Technical Framework for public comment.
- Patient Identifier Cross-Reference and Patient Demographic Query HL7 V3 (PIX/PDQ V3)
- White Paper: Cross Community Information Exchange including Federation of XDS Affinity Domains
- White Paper: Cross-Enterprise User Authentication (XUA)
- White Paper: Cookbook for the Security Section of IHE Profiles
Comments on this supplement and white papers can be submitted to the online discussion forums at http://forums.rsna.org. To be considered for incorporation in the Trail Implementation version of this supplement, comments must be submitted by September 15, 2006. To be considered as part of the planning cycle for the coming year comments on the white papers must be submitted by September 30, 2006.
IHE testifies to National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
Didi Davis, Director of IHE for HIMSS, provided testimony to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) on July 27, 2006 regarding how IHE can be leveraged to build the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). Download a copy of the text of her testimony in PDF format.
  
 
 
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