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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
February 2024
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
February 2024
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
August 2013
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
August 2013
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
June 2007
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 2024
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
August 2023
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
March 2022
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 Technical Framework Supplement: Asynchronous AS4 Option Rev 1.3

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
1.3
Access
Open
Status
Trial
Created
August 2023
This supplement introduces an Asynchronous Web Services (WS) Exchange stack based on the OASIS Applicability Statement 4 (AS4). The AS4 Specification provides a robust option to support cross-border e-health information exchange.

IHE IT Infrastructure White Paper: Access Control

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
September 2009
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
November 2021
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 2024
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 Patient Care Device User Handbook

Category
Handbook
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
April 2018
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
February 2024
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
February 2024
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
August 2022
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
September 2016
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
June 2021
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
October 2023
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 2024
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
August 2022
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
August 2022
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
November 2023
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
November 2023
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
August 2023
This Profile defines an interface through which healthcare systems may retrieve centrally managed uniform nomenclature and mappings between code systems.