Welcome to IHE Canada 


Upcoming Events


Canada Health Infoway Spring Partnership Conference - IHE Canada Informational Meeting

April 20, 2010 at 5 PM Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, Montreal, QC, room - Ballroom West - 4th floor.

Planning on attending the Spring 2010 Infoway Partnership Conference? Take advantage of this opportunity to attend an informational meeting of IHE Canada. Conveniently co-located at the Spring 2010 Infoway Partnership venue, participants can learn about current IHE specifications and directions for upcoming specification development. The agenda will include an update on IHE Canada's proposal to explore increased collaboration with the Infoway Standards Collaborative.

2010 IHE Radiology Work Items
The IHE Radiology Technical Committee currently has two work items directly related to addressing issues with deployment of systems based on the Infoway DI-R blueprint:

White Paper: Imaging Object Change Management (IOCM) - addresses change management and data synchronization use cases arising when deploying a DI-R based architecture.

Supplement: Multiple Image Managers - addresses Image Manager to Image Manager communication in peer-to-peer and local-to-central (DI-R) scenarios within and across enterprises, including management of multiple patient identifiers, whether they be different local identifiers or local and central (national) identifiers.

Current drafts of these work items can be found at the IHE Radiology Technical Committee wiki site:

http://wiki.ihe.net/index.php?title=Radiology_Technical_Committee


About IHE Canada

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.