Section Head: David W. Piraino, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Section Description: This section will provide information on Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE).
IHE is an initiative to improve the methods used to share health information.
These IHE sessions will provide information about the IHE organization and
process. The sessions include a general discussion of how IHE works and in what
clinical areas IHE is developing Integration Profiles. More specific information
will be provided about the methods IHE has developed to share image related
information. The final session will provide information on how IHE Integration
Profiles and the IHE process can be used in practice in a large healthcare enterprise.
103: IHE Overview
David W. Piraino, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how IHE develops standards-base interoperability.
2. Describe the areas IHE covers.
3. Describe how users can implement an Integration Profile.
203: IHE in Imaging Informatics
John Paganini, MBA, CPHIMS
Guardian Technologies International
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the clinical and economic benefits that IHE provide to users and
vendors.
2. Understand how IHE can be applied to address integrated workflow issues for
radiologists, department managers, PACS administrators and referring physicians
3. Describe useful first steps toward implementing IHE Integration Profiles.
303: IHE in Practice
Albert Edwards & Louis M. Lannum
Cleveland Clinic Health System
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how IHE Integration Profiles relate to real workflow integration
issues.
2. Describe how IHE can be applied in practice.
3. Describe an example of using IHE interoperability in practice – real world
experience.
