Combining Healthcare Standards
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is is an initiative to combine and coordinate the use of various established health IT standards to address a particular clinical need in health information exchange.
WHAT DOES IT TRY TO SOLVE?
IHE aims to solve specific issues in interoperability. It does not rely on a single standard to solve every interoperability problem, but optimizes the strength of several existing standards.
HOW DOES IT SOLVE THE PROBLEM?
IHE develops a profile or a recipe on how to implement different standards to solve a particular interoperability issue. IHE profiles define how these standards can be implemented together to meet specific needs. IHE also conducts connectathons, projectathons, and conformity assessments based on an internationally recognized quality system.
