IHE Cardiology Technical Framework Supplement – Cardiac Imaging Report Content (CIRC)

This supplementary resource aims to enable collection and distribution of the most clinically relevant data on diagnostic imaging procedures common in cardiology. This will enable individual test data to be more easily shared between caregivers and systems and population-based research on test effectiveness. The resource codifies extensive areas of diagnostic imaging indications, procedures, medications, observations, complications and findings and specifies how these data can be exchanged to be used by both care providers and automated data processing systems.

Main sections:

· Integration profiles

· Transactions and content modules