IHE Integration Statement
IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) is an initiative developed by healthcare and information technology professionals to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information.
IHE created and operates a process through which interoperability of healthcare IT systems can be improved. The group gathers case requirements, identifies available standards, and develops technical guidelines that manufacturers can implement.[1]
There are many national e-health initiatives around the world utilizing IHE profiles. However, EndoSoft is the first Meaningful Use (MU) certified procedure documentation, workflow, and image management software vendor to join IHE for specialty reporting in North America. EndoSoft is the Document Source actor for the delivery of unique and extensive medical content in the IHE infrastructure environment. EndoSoft is active in cross functional domains like ITI, Radiology, PCC, and others.
EndoSoft has incorporated XDS (Cross-enterprise Document Sharing) of HL7 CDA and CCD medical summaries, as well as, XDS_SD (Cross-enterprise Document Sharing of Scanned Documents) of PDF’s for medical content within our workflow and proprietary XDS engine.
EndoSoft utilizes Scheduled Workflow (SWF) for querying modality worklists and sending non-DICOM images outside Radiology (endoscopy) to PACS for storage. EndoSoft works with PACS vendors to accomplish XDS-I (Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging) for the non-DICOM images and reports to be shared across the enterprise.
Each year our engineering and development teams participate in annual IHE connectathons and HIMSS interoperability showcases to test with other vendors. In order to pass validation for a particular IHE profile, a vendor must pass each test with three separate vendors which results are published on IHE’s website.
For complete details, please see our IHE integration statement.
[1] Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrating_the_Healthcare_Enterprise Updated September 1, 2011. Accessed November 16, 2011.
Endosoft's IHE Integration Statement can be found here