The 2008 IHE Interoperability Showcase Theater highlighted the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) framework. IHE (www.ihe.net) as a global initiative, now in its ninth year that 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. Ten to fifteen percent of the HIMSS 2008 conference attendees were able to join sponsors and various IHE committee representatives in the educational theatre offered within 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. To review HIMSS08 Interoperability Showcase Presentations:
Review Presentations

To review for upcoming 2008-2009 North American Cycle: To review recent informative presentations about the Annual North American Showcase Cycle including comprehensive presentations about how to register for the IHE 2009 North American Connectathon, the HIMSS09 Interoperability Showcase, to learn more about IHE profiles and more, click on the link below to access over a dozen free online presentations available in audio and downloadable presentations
Review Presentations