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Acronym
IHE
Type
Standards Development Organisation

IHE are one of the global standards organisations that are fundamental to digital health. Their standards, or profiles, enable health systems and care delivery networks to adopt interoperable digital workflows. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed in accordance with IHE standards are known to communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively.  

IHE use a defined process for the development of standards based on identified needs from within the IHE community which is largely clinical. They also develop and maintain tools and processes to support the implementation of standards and conformity to a minimum set of requirements. IHE Standards domains include Cardiology, Dental, Devices, Endoscopy, Eye Care, IT Infrastructure, Pathology, Surgery and Laboratory Medicines, Patient Care Coordination, Pharmacy, Quality, Research and Public Health, Radiation Oncology and Radiology.

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Resources

Basic Audit Log Patterns (BALP) v1.1.3

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.1.3
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Feb-24
This Implementation Guide is a Content Profile that defines some basic and reusable AuditEvent patterns.

Document Subscription for Mobile (DSUBm) v1.0.0

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.0.0
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Feb-24
This Profile describes the use of document subscription and notification mechanisms for RESTful applications.

IHE Cardiology (CARD) Technical Framework - Volume 1 CARD TF-1 Integration Profiles v5

Category
Technical Framework
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
5
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Aug-13
This technical framework defines specific implementations of established standards to achieve integration goals for cardiology. Such integration promotes appropriate sharing of medical information to support optimal patient care. This is the first of 2 volumes.

IHE Cardiology (CARD) Technical Framework - Volume 2 CARD TF-2 Transactions v5

Category
Technical Framework
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
5
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Aug-13
This technical framework defines specific implementations of established standards to achieve integration goals for cardiology. Such integration promotes appropriate sharing of medical information to support optimal patient care. This is the second of 2 volumes.

IHE Cardiology - Cardiology Data Handling White Paper v2.04

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.04
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jun-07
This white paper presents information on the requirements and potential solutions to improve how medical information is gathered and collated for clinical documentation systems in cardiology.

IHE FormatCode Vocabulary v1.3.0

Category
Implementation Guide
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.3.0
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
May-24
This implementation guide publishes the IHE vocabulary for FormatCode and the IHE managed ValueSet for FormatCode.

IHE IT Infrastructure (ITI) Technical Framework, Volume 1 v20

Category
Technical Framework
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
20
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Aug-23
This volume provides a high-level view of IHE functionality, showing the transactions organised into functional units called integration profiles that highlight their capacity to address specific IT Infrastructure requirements. This is the first of 4 volumes.

IHE IT Infrastructure Handbook - Document Sharing Metadata v2.1

Category
Handbook
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Mar-22
This handbook outlines the steps to define how document metadata would be used, how to enforce and propagate that use, and how to evolve the document metadata use constraints over time.

IHE IT Infrastructure White Paper: Access Control

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Sep-09
This document is a white paper providing policy recommendations on data sharing and access control in healthcare networks. It includes a policy review, a design methodology for access control systems, and an example use case.

IHE IT Infrastructure White Paper: mCSD White Paper Rev 1.1

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Nov-21
This white paper describes some common uses where the Mobile Care Services Discovery (mCSD) Profile can be used to help implementation of services discovery using registries or directories.

IHE ITI Technical Framework Supplement: Internet User Authorization (IUA) v2.3

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.3
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Updated
May-24
This document is a supplement to the IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework. Internet User Authorization (IUA) supports the authorisation of network transactions when using IHE's HTTP RESTful transports.

IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PaLM) Technical Framework Supplement: Anatomic Pathology Structured Report (APSR) v2.1

Category
Supplimentary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.1
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Created
Sep-18
This is a supplement to the IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PaLM) Technical Framework V9.0. It describes the Anatomic Pathology Structured Report (APSR) content profile (in reference to Volume 1 of the framework), and the structured artifacts: content modules, bindings, and value sets (in reference to Volume 3 of the framework).

IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Technical Framework Supplement: Laboratory Clinical Communications (LCC) v2.2

Category
Supplimentary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.2
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Created
Apr-24
This is a supplement to the IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PaLM) Technical Framework V11.0. It describes the Laboratory Clinical Communication (LCC) profile, which defines workflows, messages, and data elements to support automated communications between Order Filler and Order Placer/EHR systems about orders and results.

IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC) Technical Framework Supplement: CDA Document Summary Sections (CDA-DSS) v2.1

Category
Supplimentary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.1
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Created
Sep-19
This document outlines the CDA Document Summary Sections (CDA-DSS) profile, which is a content profile that describes the different types of section templates that can summarise content in the document (or add summary content that is not already included in the document).

IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC) Technical Framework Supplement: Labor and Delivery Profiles (LDHP, LDS and MDS)

Category
Supplimentary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Created
Oct-13
This document defines the labour and history physical (LDHP), labour and delivery summary (LDS) and maternal discharge summary (MDS) content profiles, all of which allow professionals to share patient information collected during labour, delivery and the immediate postpartum period.

IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC) Technical Framework Supplement: Paramedicine Care Summary (PCS) v1.1

Category
Supplimentary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.1
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Created
Sep-18
This document defines the Paramedicine Care Summary (PCS) profile, which makes ambulance-based patient assessments and paramedicine interventions available electronically to hospital or emergency room staff, either when the patient arrives or in advance of the patient’s arrival to the hospital.

IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC) Technical Framework Supplement: Query for Existing Data for Mobile (QEDm) v2.3

Category
Supplimentary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.3
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Created
Feb-22
This document defines the Query for Existing Data for Mobile (QEDm) profile, which supports dynamic queries made on mobile devices (including tablets, smartphones, home health devices and large systems used in environments where interoperability requirements are simple).

IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC) Technical Framework Supplement: Reconciliation of Clinical Content and Care Providers (RECON) v3.2

Category
Supplimentary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
3.2
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Created
Nov-16
This document defines the Reconciliation of Clinical Content and Care Providers (RECON) profile, which draws on the information contained in health information systems and exchanges to support the automation of reconciliation tasks and clinical workflows.

IHE Patient Care Device User Handbook

Category
Handbook
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Apr-18
This handbook describes how to use the information developed by the IHE initiative to deploy patient care devices and systems that exchange information effectively, using standards-based transactions to meet critical clinical needs.

IHE Patient Demographics Query for Mobile v3.0.0

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
3.0.0
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Feb-24
This Profile defines a lightweight RESTful interface for patient demographics suppliers.

IHE Patient Identifier Cross-referencing for Mobile v3.0.4

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
3.0.4
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Feb-24
This Profile provides RESTful transactions for mobile and lightweight browser-based applications to: create, update and delete patient records in a Patient Identifier Cross-reference Manager and query the Patient Identifier Cross-reference Manager for a patient's cross-domain identifiers.

IHE Patient Master Identity Registry (PMIR) v1.5.0

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.5.0
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Aug-22
This Profile supports the creating, updating and deprecating of patient master identity information, as well as subscribing to changes to the patient master identity, using the HL7 FHIR standard resources and RESTful transactions.

IHE Radiology Technical Framework Supplement - Basic Image Review (BIR) v1.3

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.3
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Created
Sep-16
This document describes a profile that defines the appropriate baseline functionality and behaviours for image viewing software on CD. This ensures a uniform user experience for the physicians viewing the images.

IHE Technical Frameworks General Introduction and Shared Appendices v2.0

Category
Standard
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2
Access
Open
Status
Active
Updated
Jun-21
The IHE Technical Frameworks General Introduction and Shared Appendices applies to all IHE Technical Frameworks that are a resource for users, developers and implementers of healthcare imaging and information systems.

Integrated Reporting Applications v1.0.0

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.0.0
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Updated
Oct-23
The Integrated Reporting Applications (IRA) profile helps applications that are used together during reporting (e.g. image display, report creator, clinical applications, AI tools) to share information using a standard called FHIRcast.

Mobile Access to Health Documents (MHD) v4.2.1

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
4.2.1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
May-24
This Profile defines one standardised interface to health document sharing (an Application Programming Interface, or API) for use by mobile devices so that deployment of mobile applications is more consistent and reusable.

Mobile Care Services Discovery (mCSD) v3.8.0

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
3.8.0
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Aug-22
This Profile supports RESTful queries across related care services resources.

Mobile Health Document Sharing v2.3.1

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.3.1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Aug-22
This implementation guide shows how to build a Document Sharing Exchange using IHE-profiled FHIR standard, rather than the legacy IHE profiles that are dominated by XDS and HL7 v2.

Non-patient File Sharing (NPFS) v2.2.0

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.2.0
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Nov-23
This profile defines how to enable the sharing of non-patient files and identifies 3 actors: File Manager, File Consumer and File Source.

Sharing of IPS (sIPS) v1.0.0

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.0.0
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Nov-23
This document defines how HL7 FHIR International Patient Summary (IPS) is communicated using IHE Document Sharing Health Information Exchange.

Sharing Valuesets, Codes, and Maps (SVCM) v1.5.1

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.5.1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Aug-23
This Profile defines an interface through which healthcare systems may retrieve centrally managed uniform nomenclature and mappings between code systems.