HIMSS AsiaPac07 Interoperability Showcase

The 2007 Interoperability Showcase highlighted the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) framework. The IHE global initiative, now in its ninth year, creates the framework for passing vital health information seamlessly—from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting—across multiple healthcare institutions. IHE brings together healthcare information technology stakeholders to implement standards for communicating patient information efficiently among clinicians and other healthcare providers. About 100 conference attendees were able to join sponsors and various IHE committee representatives in the educational theatre theater offered at the showcase .  There they learned more about how this framework can be leveraged to benefit current implementation of an interoperable patient information exchange that includes various healthcare specialties such as radiology, cardiology, laboratory, patient care devices, and infrastructure.