The fundamentals of IHE Integrating Enterprises and building standards-based regional and national health information networks Israel Association for Medical Information Tel-Aviv May 17, 2006 Charles Parisot GE Healthcare – IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Co-chair September, 2005 1 What IHE Delivers Standards are critical but alone are not enough Standards offer generality, ambiguity and alternatives Standard Implementation Guides are focused on a single standard Increasing complexity IHE provides a standard process for implementing multiple standards! 2 Connecting standards to care Care providers work with vendors to coordinate the implementation of standards to meet their needs Care providers identify the key interoperability problems they face Drive industry to develop and make available standards-based solutions Implementers follow common guidelines in purchasing and integrating systems that deliver these solutions IHE, effective way to establish those “standards” for how to implement standards 3 What is Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise? IHE provides a common framework for passing health information seamlessly: within the healthcare enterprise across multiple healthcare enterprises for local, regional & national health information networks IHE is sponsored by healthcare professional associations: HIMSS, RSNA, ACC, ACCE, ESC, SFR, BIR, GMSIH, etc. IHE drives standards adoption to address specific clinical needs 4 IHE Maturity and Acceptance More than 40 user organizations & close to 200 healthcare vendors worldwide have contributed to IHE Delivery of ready-to-integrate products to benefit healthcare enterprises of all sizes In clinical use today in enterprises and regional networks IHE scope, today and in the future radiology, cardiology, laboratory, oncology, eye care, devices enterprise healthcare IT infrastructures cross-enterprise healthcare IT infrastructures RHIO’s and NHIN 5 Proven Standards Adoption Process Develop technical specifications Testing at Connectathons IHE Demonstrations Products with IHE Identify available standards (e.g. HL7, DICOM, IETF, OASIS) Document Use Case Requirements Timely access to information Easy to integrate products 6 IHE Connectathon 7 Achievements and Expanding Scope Close to 200 vendors involved world-wide, 5 Technical Frameworks 48 Integration Profiles, Testing at Connectathons Demonstrations at major conferences world-wide Electronic Health Record Radiology Cardiology 15 Integration Profiles 4 Integration Profiles Laboratory Patient Care Coordination IHE IT Infrastructure 5 Integration Profiles 1 Integration Profile 13 Integration Profiles Future Domains Patient Care Devices Endoscopy Pathology Oncology Eye Care 8 IHE Organizational Structure IHE (International) Strategic Development Committee Sponsors Co-Chairs supervises reports Global IHE North America IHE Domain-related Planning Committee and Technical Committee IHE Europe IHE Asia/Oceania Regional & National Deployment Global Development: Radiology, IT Infrastructure, Cardiology, Lab, etc. Delegates Interoperability contribute Participants National Extensions 9 What is IHE NOT? Not a standard, although it leverages them A vendor initiative, although they participate Not a certifying authority, although IHE provides compliance testing Not simply a demonstration project Demos are only one means to the end: Adoption Backed up by documentation, tools, testing, and publication of Technical Frameworks and Product Integration Statements. IHE, critical for standardizing interoperability 10 IHE Model Actors in precisely defined roles Abstracts a specific function of information system …Executing precisely defined transactions Using existing standards ……To solve real world interoperability problems Specifying Integration Profiles 11 IHE Technical Frameworks Implementation Guide for each Integration Profile An Integration Profile : A Set of Actors Exchanging Transactions Use cases Process Flows Department System Scheduler/ Order Filler Order Placer ADT Image Manager/ PPS Manager Acquisition Modality Register J.Doe Patient Registration [RAD-1] One or the other methods of creating an order is used Placer Order Management– New [RAD-2] Filler Order Management New [RAD-3] Schedule Procedure Procedure Scheduled [RAD-4] Query Modality Worklist [RAD-5] Actors Filler Order Mgmt - Status Update [RAD-3] Transactions Patient Reconciliation J.Doe -> J.Smith Filler Order Mgmt - Status Update [RAD-3] Patient Update/ Merge [RAD-12] Modality Procedure Step Completed [RAD-7] Modality Procedure Step In Progress [CARD-1] Modality Procedure Step Completed [RAD-7] Patient Update/ Merge [RAD-12] ADT Pt. Registration [RAD-1] Patient Update [RAD-12] DSS/ Order Filler Modality Procedure Step In Progress [CARD-1] Pt. Registration [RAD-1] Patient Update [RAD-12] Placer Order Management [RAD-2] Filler Order Management [RAD-3] Modality PS in Progress [CARD-1] Modality PS Completed [RAD-7] Order Placer For each transaction: Procedure Scheduled [RAD-4] Patient Update [RAD-12] Procedure Updated [RAD-13] Instance Availability Notification [RAD-49] Evidence Creator Modality PS in Progress [CARD-1] Modality PS Completed [RAD-7] Performed Procedure Step Manager Storage Commitment [CARD-3] Image Display Modality Image/Evidence Stored [CARD-2] Image Manager Query Images [RAD-14] Retrieve Images/Evidence [CARD-4] Std referenced Options specified Mapping required Image Archive Modality PS in Progress [CARD-1] Modality PS Completed [RAD-7] Storage Commitment [CARD-3] Modality Image/Evidence Stored [CARD-2] Modality PS in Progress [CARD-1] Modality PS Completed [RAD-7] Query Modality Worklist [RAD-5] Acquisition Modality 12 Perform Acquisition IHE Solutions within the Enterprise EMR - HIS Enterprise IT Infrastructure eMPI User Auth RIS Img Acq Radiology CIS PACS Cath Cardiology LIS ECG Auto Mgr -Radiation Therapy -Patient Care Devices Analyzer -Pathology Laboratory -Eye Care 13 IHE Solutions within the Enterprise Cardiology EMR - HIS Enterprise IT Infrastructure eMPI User Auth RIS Img Acq Radiology CIS PACS Cath LIS ECG Auto Mgr Cardiology -Radiation Therapy -Patient Care Devices Analyzer -Pathology Laboratory -Eye Care Cardiology Integration Profiles Cardiac Catheterization Lab Workflow Echocardiography Lab Workflow Retrieve ECG for Display Displayable Reports Cath and Echo Evidence Documents 14 IHE Solutions within the Enterprise Laboratory EMR - HIS Enterprise IT Infrastructure eMPI User Auth RIS CIS Integration Cath Profiles Img AcqLaboratory PACS Laboratory Scheduled Workflow Radiology Cardiology Laboratory Information Reconciliation LIS ECG Auto Mgr -Radiation Therapy -Patient Care Devices Analyzer -Pathology Laboratory -Eye Care Laboratory Point Of Care Testing Laboratory Device Automation Laboratory Code Set Distribution 15 IHE Solutions within the Enterprise IT Infrastructure (Enterprise) EMR - HIS Enterprise IT Infrastructure eMPI User Auth RIS IT Infrastructure Integration Profiles CIS LIS -Radiation Therapy Patient Administration Management -Patient Care Devices Patient Demographics Query Img Acq ECG PACS Cath Patient Identifier Cross-referencing Radiology Cardiology Retrieve Information for Display Auto Mgr Analyzer -Pathology Laboratory -Eye Care Enterprise User Authentication Consistent Time Patient Synchronized Applications Audit Trail and Node Authentication Personnel White Pages 16 IHE Solutions within the Enterprise Radiology EMR - HIS Enterprise IT Infrastructure eMPI Radiology Integration Profiles Radiology Scheduled Workflow User Auth Patient Information Reconciliation Access to Radiology Information RIS Img Acq CIS Portable Data for Imaging PACS Radiology How to use IHE ? IHE Radiology Handbook Consistent Presentation of Images ECG Auto Mgr Cath Key Image Note LIS -Radiation Therapy -Patient Care Devices Analyzer -Pathology Cardiology Laboratory Presentation of Grouped Procedures -Eye Care Evidence Documents Audit trail and Node Authentication (Rad option) Teaching Files and Clinical Trials Export Post-processing Workflow Reporting Workflow Charge Posting Simple Image and Numeric Reports 17 IHE Scheduled Workflow (SWF) and Patient Information Reconciliation (PIR) SWF = Fulfilling a request for imaging service with maximum efficiency? How do I avoid reentering information on modalities? How do I avoid entering in my RIS what my modality already knows ? How do I ensure that in all cases no study is lost, remains unread, or read incomplete. How do I ensure that all necessary information is automatically on my PACS and RIS? PIR = Fulfilling a request for imaging service in the absence of key information? How do I deal with trauma and “non-registered patients”? What if the ADT/ Patient Registration is down? What if the Order Placer is down? 18 Scheduled Workflow Profile report report Registration report Report Repository HIS patient Diagnostic Workstation information PACS Film Lightbox images retrieved Orders Placed examination orders RIS Orders Filled procedure scheduled Image Manager Prefetch any relevant & Archive prior studies Acquisition modality images Modality worklist stored acquisition completed acquisition images in-progress completed printed Modality Film Folder Film 19 IHE for Regional or National EHR Sharing Health Records across different care settings 20 Sharing and Accessing Electronic Health Records IHE offers interoperability for local, regional, specific, or national health information exchange Goal is to enable exchange between providers’s EHR systems and ancillary IT systems (Lab, Pharma, Payers) and personal health record systems. Objective is to empower the consumer in having “shared EHR information” between all of its potential healthcare providers (if authorized) and self. IHE goal is not: To create a “perfect health record”, the truth about a patient health. To create an other “health record”, next to the one(s) managed by the provider and the consumer. 21 Introduced at HIMSS in 2005 : IHE-XDS Community or sub-network Clinic Record Hospital Record Repository of Documents Specialist Record Reference to records Repository of Documents 3-Records Returned 4-Patient data presented to Physician Clinical IT System Index of patients records (Document-level) Sharing System Aggregate Patient Info Clinical Encounter 2-Reference to Records for Inquiry 22 Health Information Exchanges Interoperability: Cross-enterprise Digital Document Sharing Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing minimizes clinical data management by the infrastructure. Transparency = Ease of Evolution Patients have guaranteed portability and providers may share information without concerns of aggregation errors. Digital Documents = Patients and providers empowerment Supports both centralized and decentralized repository architectures. Ease of federation nationally. Flexible privacy, Flexibility of configurations Workflows addressed in a second step in a much simpler manner. Point-to-Point messages best suited for workflows mgt 23 Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) Standards Used Healthcare Content Standards HL7 CDA, CEN EHRcom HL7, DICOM … Electronic Business Standards ebXML Registry, SOAP … Internet Standards HTML, HTTP, ISO, PDF, JPEG … Implemented world-wide by more than 30 vendors/open source. Final text published August 2005. Adopted in several national & regional projects (Italy, France, Canada, Austria, USA, etc.) IHE XDS, based on ISO 15000 standard: 15800 “Google” references (Jan’ 06) 38900 (April’ 06) 24 Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) Clinical Information in the Digital Document Two “categories” of standards used • Medical Summaries XDS Doc Content (HL7 CDA/CRS+V3) • Imaging (DICOM) • ECG Reports (PDF+) • Next lab, nursing, etc. XDS Infrastructure (Document sources, consumers, registries, repostories) 25 IHE-XDS is part of a family of profiles Regional, national, local or disease centric networks need a consistent set of Integration Profiles Nine Integration Profiles completed and tested, plus seven in development = Standards-based interoperability building blocks for Rich Document Content for end-to-end application interoperability. Available is a structured medical summary (incl meds, allergies, pbs) and imaging information (incl. Images and reports). More in development. Patient identification management Security and privacy Basic workflow (Notif of doc availbility) IHE-XDS + related IHE Integration profiles provide a complete interoperability solution 26 IHE Integration Profiles for Health Info Nets What is available and has been added in 2005 and is for 2006 Emergency Referrals Patient Created Summaries Format of the Document Content and Report associated coded vocabulary ECG Document Format of the Document Content andResults associated coded vocabulary Lab Document Format of the Document Content Content Scanned Documents and associated coded vocabulary Format of the Document Content Imaging and associated coded vocabulary Format of theInformation Document Content Medical Summary Format of the Document Content Meds, Allergies, Pbs) and(associated coded vocabulary Format of the Document Content and associated coded vocabulary Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing Cross-enterprise User Authentication Authentication & Auditing: Enhanced Access Control Document Digital Signature Patient Identifier Cross-referencing Map patient identifiers across independent identification domains Attesting “true-copy and origin Audit Trail & Node Authentication Registration, distribution and access across health enterprises of clinical documents forming a patient electronic health record Centralized privacy audit trail and node to node authentication to create a secured domain. Cross-enterprise Document Interchange Consistent Time Media-CD/USB & e-mail push Patient Demographics Query Notification of Document Availability Coordinate time across networked systems Notification of a remote provider/ health enterprise 27 XDS Scenario + use of ATNA & CT EHR System PMS ED Application Physician Office XDS Document Repository XDS Document Registry PACS XDS Document Repository Query Document Register Document Secured Messaging PACS EHR System Retrieve Document Lab Info. System Community Clinic Maintain Time Record Audit Event Record Audit Event Maintain Time ATNA Audit CT Time server record repository Maintain Time Provide & Register Docs Teaching Hospital Record Audit Event XDS Affinity Domain (NHIN sub-network) 28 XDS-MS Medical Summary (HL7 CDA) Structured and Coded Header Patient, Author, Authenticator, Institution, Time of Service, etc. St r u c t u r ed Co n t en t w i t h c o d ed s ec t i o n s : Reason for Referral Vital Signs Medication Text Structure Entry Coded Section Entry Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Studies Allergies Text Structure Entry Coded Section Entry Social History Problems Text Structure Entry Care Plan Coded Section Entry Level 3 Header always structured and coded Title-coded sections with non-structured nor coded content (text, lists, tables). Simple Viewing (XML Style sheet) Med, Problems and Allergies required as highly structured text. Text easy to import/parse Med Problems and Allergies have a required fine-grain structure with optional coding. Procesable health data import XDS-MS enables both semantical interoperability and simple viewing ! 29 Use of a shared XDS infrastructure to access Radiology Reports and Images (XDS-I) Between Radiology and : • Imaging specialists • Non-imaging clinicians Hospital PACS Y Radiology -toRadiology Radiology -toPhysicians Physician Practice PACS Z Imaging Center Same XDS Infrastructure (Registry and Repositories) for medical summaries and imaging information ! 30 HIMSS Feb 2006 Interoperability Showcase 31 Successful showcase - Over 3000 visitors Real-world implementations. Effective IHE interoperability 36 vendor products: EHR & Ancillary IT systems, PHR systems, Registries, Repositories, MPIs, etc. 4 Federal entities or grantees (VA, DoD, NIST, CDC/UW) All implementations passed IHE Connectathon tests Scenario focused on health information exchange: Within the enterprise (Cardiology, Radiology, etc.) Across inpatient and physician offices care settings in a RHIO for health status information (meds, allergies, pbs, etc.), reports, images, legacy docs Empowered with your own health record: Show-wide record submission and access (11 vendor booths) “HIMSS RHIO” Infrastructure: secured access & communications, distributed repositories, document registries, patient Id Xreferencing 32 HIMSS IHE Interoperability Showcase February 2006 Participants Leadership Level Blue Ware Cerner GE Healthcare +IDX IBM Initiate Systems InterSystems MiSys Healthcare Quovadx Siemens Implementer Level Allscripts Canon CapMed Cardiac Science CGI-AMS CompassCare CPSI Dictaphone DR Systems Eastman Kodak Eclipsys Epic Systems HIPAAT Supporter Level: Acuo Bond Carefx Clearcube HX Technologies INFINITT Technology Kryptiq McKesson MedAccess Plus Medical Informatics MediNotes MNI National Institute of Sci & Tech NextGen Healthcare Philips Medical ScImage Witt Biomedical Organizational participant: Dairyland EMC Identrus Intel Mediserve Medkey Motion Comp. Picis Pulse Sentillion American Coll. of Clinical Eng. Catholic Healthcare West US Dept of Defense US Dept of Veterans Affairs DMP–French Natl. Personal EHR Health Level 7 HTP IEEE Midmark Diagostics Group HIMSS RHIO Federation Liberty Alliance Univ. of Washington Endorsements National & Regional Projects Italy Canada Austria France Japan USA (NHIN prototypes and RHIOs) Vendors US EHR Vendor Association (95% market): Interoperability Roadmap: www.himssehrva.org Europe: COCIR 34 35 Participating and Contributing Vendors (America) Agfa HealthCare Epic Systems Corp. MedAccessPlus Health Raining Data Algotec ETIAM MedCommons Inc RASNA Imaging Systems Allscripts Healthcare Fujifilm Medcon ScImage Inc. Berdy GE Healthcare Medical Informatics Eng. Sectra Imtec Blueware Heartlab Medical Manager Health Sentillion Camtronics HIPAAT Inc. Mediface Co. Shimadzu Corp Canon Medical Systems Hitachi Medical Corp. Medinotes Siemens Medical Solutns’ CapMed Hologic Medis Medical Imaging Softmedical Cardiac Science Corp. Hx Technologies Merge eFilm Stentor, Inc Carefx IDX Systems Corporation Misys St. Jude Medical Cedara Software Corp. Imco Technologies MNI Medicos StorCOMM, Inc Cerner Corporation INFINITT Mortara Swissray International, Inc CGI-AMS Initiate Systems Inc. NextGen Tiani-Spirit CSIST InSiteOne Novell Toshiba Medical Systems Dictaphone Intelerad Medical Systems Open Text Corp. T-Systems DR Systems IBM Philips Medical Systems UltraVisual Medical Syst. Dynamic Imaging Intersystems Corporation Procom Technology Vital Images, Inc. Eastman Kodak Company Konica Minolta Prosolv Cardiovascular Voxar Limited EBM Technologies Kryptic QRS Diagnostics WebMD Practice Services Eclipsys Marotech, Inc. Quovadx Witt Biomedical Corp. Emageon McKesson RADinfo Systems XIMIS In yellow, companies with IHE Committees Chairs (Spring 2006) 36 Participating and Contributing Vendors (Europe) AGFA Healthcare AISoftw@re Medical Algotec ARES SA aycan Digitalsysteme ETIAM Ferrania Fujifilm GE Healthcare GIE Convergence-Profils MEDASYS SA Medavis Medical Communications Medigration GmbH MEDIMON Ltd. Siemens Medical Soluzioni Informatiche srl Stentor Inc. St. Jude Swissray Medical AG CEGEDIM Cerner Corp. CHILI CMT Medical Tech. Conto Corrente Salute ConVis CTI Mirada Solutions Global Imaging Online GWI Research Hi. tech IASI Srl IdeoPass INFINITT INFOPATIENT MEDIWARE MEDOS AG Merge eFilm METAFORA Mevis Diagnostics Konica Minolta Omnilab Symphonie On Line Synapsis Synchro-Med TECHNIDATA TELEMIS S.A. Tiani-Sprit Tomtec Imaging Data Processing SPA DEDALUS Dianoema Eastman Kodak Co. Ebit Sanita EDL ELFIN s.r.l. INOVIT INSIEL Intersystems Corp. Invita ITZ Medicom iSoft McKesson Philips Medical Systems POLYMEDIS Rasna Imaging Systems RAYPAX INC. REM Rogan-Delft Sago spa Engineering Sanità ESAOTE MED2RAD MEDarchiver Sectra Imtec AB SeeBeyond Technology TOREX GAP Medical Toshiba Medical Systems TSI groupe europMedica T-Systems Uni-medicine VEPRO AG VISUS Technology Transfer WAID XR PARTNER In yellow, companies with IHE Committees Chairs (Winter 2005) 37 Participating and Contributing Vendors (Asia) Japan EBMJ PSP PANASONIC ALOKA KONICA MINOLTA Hitachi Medical Co. KODAK HITACHI SBS INFOCOM CLIMBMS TECHMATRIX CANON VIEWSEND Japan ITEC WINTCS NEC AGFA JMAC GEYMS AJS TOSHIBA YOKOGAWA GOODMAN FUJITSU AANDT FUJIFILM Taiwan INFINITT Shing Shian INQ GEN TEP Tah Ya Korea AGFA Korea GE Healthcare Korea INFINITT LG CNS Marotech, Inc. Medical Standard Peoplenet Communications Samsung SDS 38 What can you do? Learn about IHE Insist on IHE compliance in your RFPs and contract documents: Select Integration Profiles, and Appropriate Actor(s) Ask vendors for their products “IHE Integration Statements”. Need more interoperability ? Join IHE Israel Contribute to Global IHE Committees 39 Call for Tenders Be Brief (but ineffective) ? “The system must support DICOM” “The system must support HL7” Be Effective (but lengthy) ? “The system must support the following DICOM or HL7 services according to the following 100 pages of specifications: …” Be Both brief and effective: Quote IHE profiles and actors: “The system must support the IHE Scheduled Workflow as the Order Filler actor.” Request IHE Integration Statements Version 2.1 of the SuperX CT supports IHE Scheduled Workflow, Patient Information Reconciliation and Key Image Note as an Acquisition Modality 40 IHE Integration Statements Explicit claim by the vendor, for a specific product version Lists profiles, actors, options Short (1 page) & Sweet Compare apples with apples. e.g.: The number of IHE Integration Profiles actually delivered on different PACS products varies greatly: http:// www.ihe.net/resources/ ihe_integration_statements.cfm 41 How can I participate? As a Provider or Vendor Contributor Offer Clinical Use Case Input to Drive IHE Profile Development Become a member of relevant domain’s Planning or Technical Committees Become a member of relevant Regional/National Committees IHE Israel Help to shape IHE’s future direction As a Vendor Participant Respond to Public Comments of Domain Supplements Attend Educational Workshops Participate in Connect-a-thons and Demonstrations As a Provider/Consultant Participant Respond to Public Comments of Domain Supplements Attend Educational Workshops Include IHE Integration Profiles in your RFPs and Integration Projects. 42 IHE Web site: www.IHE .net Frequently Asked Questions Integration Profiles in Technical Frameworks: See Volume 1 of each TF for Use cases Cardiology IT Infrastructure Laboratory Patient Care Coordination Radiology Connectathon Result: www.ihe.net/Events/connectathon_results.cfm Vendor Products Integration Statements Participation in Committees & Connectathons 43 44