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Learn how IHE facilitates efficient system integration for improved patient care. Select specific IHE profiles, review benefits, and leverage IHE resources to enhance workflows and patient outcomes. Communicate your integration plans to vendors effectively.
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Purchasing & IntegratingRadiology SystemsUsing IHE: A Tutorial & A Real-world Case Kevin O’Donnell, Cor Loef, John Paganini,Chris Lindop, Ellie Avraham, Christoph Dickmann
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise • IHE facilitates integrating systems for efficient, accuratepatient care • Systems that support IHE Integration Profiles: • communicate better & integrate more easily • provide more complete and accurate information • better support care providers workflow • Each IHE Profile • describes a clinical information need or workflow scenario • documents how to use standards (e.g. HL7, DICOM, ...) to accomplish it • Systems that implement the same Profile address a need in a mutually compatible way • Hundreds of products support one or more IHE Profiles.
Your Three Step Program • Select Specific IHE Profiles • List those Profiles in your RFP • Check Vendors IHE Integration Statements
Selecting IHE Profiles Review the Profiles : • What they do • Benefits for your situation Some Helpful Resources: • IHE User’s Handbook - Radiology • RSNA Demonstrations • Educational Material (e.g. Workshop Presentations) • IHE Technical Framework – Radiology • Connectathon Results www.ihe.net
RFPs • Be Brief? • “The system must support DICOM” • Be Effective? • “The system must support the following DICOM services according to the following 100 pages of specifications: …” • Be Both: • “The system must support the IHE Scheduled Workflow Profile as the Acquisition Modality actor.” • Vendor IHE Integration Statements • Version 2.1 of the CardioCT 5000 supports IHE Scheduled Workflow as an Acquisition Modality
IHE Integration Statements • Explicit claim by the vendor, for a specific product version • Lists profiles, actors, options • Short & Sweet
Lets look at an Example • Excerpt from Handbook • Look at a goal, e.g. Increase Throughput • Look at benefits, pick a profile • Touch on a few workflow change details and legacy handling details from Part II • <add two slides, three max> • An example is combined with progressive implementation • Three Slides Added to show an example of progressive, phased implementation from RIS+Modality to RIS+Modality+PACS – the classic integration • Diagram of a profile, • Scheduled Workflow. In this case, it is the fourth slide which continues and completes the phased implementation storyline – 3+1 slides total
Modalities with RIS Connection, and PACS I think we may keep this diagram, but it should be animated (to show integration steps as described before) and include relevant acronyms like MWL, MPPS IHE Integration Profile: • Scheduled Workflow (full) • Patient Information Reconciliation • Presentation of Grouped Procedures • Access to Radiology Information
Dealing with Legacy • Understand that you may have to deal with non-compliant devices and systems • Make best effort to bring them “up-to-date” • Initial implementations may provide partial support • Incremental usage of IHE is fine • It’s DICOM and HL7 anyway • Follow IHE’s yellow brick road...
Communicate Your Plans to Vendors • Present IHE as integration priority to Vendors. A Business goal ! • Ensure you specify Actors, Profiles, Options • Ask for Integration Statements in RFP • Ensure Project Manager and team are knowledgeable at implementing IHE
Getting Started • Visit the IHE Profile Demonstrations • Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing of Imaging [XDS-I] • Teaching File & Clinical Trial Export [TCE] • Here in Inforad and in participating Vendor Booths • Talk about an IHE strategy with your CIO / IT staff, and with your vendors • Get further information at www.ihe.net • And Keep listening . . .