Why become a member?
IHE brings together healthcare IT system users and developers to address interoperability issues that impact clinical care.
Join over 180 organizations dedicated to improving healthcare system interoperability.
Healthcare professionals, suppliers, users, specifiers, regulatory authorities, procurers and interoperability experts – to advance the shared exchange of patient information through the deployment of IHE Integration Profile specifications. It is affiliated to IHE-Europe, and to IHE International, works closely with the HL7 organisation and co-operatively with openEHR.
To achieve our mission and in support of our growing membership IHE-UK undertakes a variety of activities including:-
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is a world-wide initiative that enables Healthcare IT System users and suppliers to work together to achieve interoperability of systems through the careful definition of healthcare tasks, the specification of the communication of information between systems required to support those tasks and the testing of supplier systems (Connectathons).
IHE helps promote the coordinated use of existing established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care. IHE engages healthcare authorities & industry, clinicians and healthcare professionals to develop, test, and implement standards-based solutions.
IHE Technical Frameworks and guidance enable seamless and secure access to clinical & healthcare information that is available at the right place and at the right time. Healthcare computer systems developed in accordance with IHE interoperability and integration profiles communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable healthcare providers to use clinical information more effectively.
IHE brings together healthcare IT system users and developers to address interoperability issues that impact clinical care.
Join over 180 organizations dedicated to improving healthcare system interoperability.
IHE has created a set of information resources and tools for vendors and users of healthcare information systems to help them integrate systems and share information more effectively.
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