Ophthalmology Imaging Management, Ophthalmology EMR - EHR.
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IHE EyeCare
Image Management - Workflow Integration
a Strategic Investment
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"Overview of IHE EyeCare"
Presentation
The IHE EyeCare Image Management and Workflow Integration process begins when the patient is registered, the order for a procedure is placed, scheduled, performed, stored, and ultimately retrieved by the ophthalmologist to view, in order to make a diagnosis or a treatment decision. This entire process designed to be interoperable, utilizing industry standard HL7 messaging, DICOM transactions and IHE EyeCare protocol.
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What is IHE?
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise is a professional collaboration of medical societies, clinicians and vendors.
IHE was organized to find practical solutions to the complex issues of clinical system integration.
IHE does not develop standards. IHE promotes open standards such as DICOM, HL7 and Web technologies.
IHE refines interface specifications using these open standards, rigorously tests vendor implementations, and promotes their use through Scientific Session demonstrations and education.
IHE accelerates the adoption of the Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR), which also enables sharing of clinical data between the hospital(s), offices and clinics. This cross-location sharing of data is important in ophthalmology multi-practice settings.
All of this is done at no charge to you, the end user. Just ask for IHE from your vendors
as evidenced by an IHE Integration Statement!
Americian Academy of Ophthalmlology
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Guidance for Purchasing Devices and Equipment
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IHE EyeCare Success Story - VA
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Why IHE Eye Care?
For the Clinician — Using the work already done by IHE Eye Care means you get all the clinical information you need when you need it, where you need it, accurately integrated into a single system, such as your electronic health record system. Encourage your administrator to leverage IHE to save you time and resources by factoring in IHE connectivity (as evidenced by an IHE integration statement and a DICOM conformance statement) in your decisions to purchase or upgrade equipment.
For the Practice Administrator — Using the work already done by IHE Eye Care means improved workflow in the office. It means minimizing patient identification errors, and reducing billing cycles. You won’t worry about archiving images or entering patient name for each instrument — the work is done. Request IHE connectivity (an IHE integration statement and a DICOM conformance statement) in every purchase contract or equipment upgrade.
For the IT Staff — Get out of the infinite interface development cycle for every type of instrument. Using the work already done by IHE Eye Care means software upgrades will not break interfaces. Interface specifications are already written, and vendor-to-vendor testing is done. Ask for IHE connectivity (an IHE integration statement) in every contract.
How to Request IHE EyeCare Products?