IHE at RSNA 2002 Goals of IHE Booth on Commercial Showfloor: 1.Attract the average radiologist 2.Convince him that IHE in radiology can make a difference 3.Convey that IHE is real and can be implemented today Means to achieve above goals: 1.Define IHE's purpose with a theme: Improve, Standardize your Workflow 2.Define 3 subthemes: 1.Why do you care about IHE ? 2.How several leading institutions have already benefited from IHE 3.Learn how to use IHE Integration Profiles for yourself 3.Have two planning or Technical Committee members welcoming attendeees and answering questions at the end of each cycle.

IHE at RSNA Define 3 subthemes: 1.Why do you care about IHE ? Sponsored by RSNA, it is an industry endorsed framework that makes your next generation IT and imaging systems work for you as a better team. It builds upon standards like DICOM and HL7. 2.Learn how to Use IHE Integration Profiles in your procurement specifictions for products such as PACS, Modalities, RIS, etc. is effective to ensure the best overall departmental workflow in a multi-vendor radiology department. 3.Check for yourself how several leading institutions have taken advantage of the products now available to achieve higher level of efficiency in their radiology department. Short Announcement Video 20 mn Main Video

IHE at RSNA Why do you care about IHE ? Quick announce repeats over and over, visible on the outside on several monitors. 1.Sponsored by RSNA and HIMSS 2.It is an industry endorsed framework that spans product boundaries (show logos raining) 3.It makes your next generation IT and imaging systems work for you as a better team. 4.It builds upon standards like DICOM and HL7. 5.Attend this exciting presentation, and learn how to make IHE work for you as well a hear success stories from leading instituions that have improved and standardized their workflow with IHE. 6.While you wait, spend the next few minutes touring the IHE success galery

IHE at RSNA 2002 Drive the 3 subthemes in the video: 1.Why do you care about IHE ? (1 mn) 1.Sponsored by RSNA and HIMSS. Gil Jost explains 2.It is an industry endorsed framework that spans product boundaries (show logos raining) 3.It makes your next generation IT and imaging systems work for you as a better team. 2.Learn how to Use IHE Integration Profiles in your procurement (10mn) 1.IHE identifies functions called actors that are provided by products such as PACS, Modalities, RIS, etc. 2.Each integration feature that links several actors is called an Integration Profile 3.Depending on the domains where you want information to flow seamlessly from product to prodcut, you call for the corresponding profile(s) in your procurement. 4.IHE is backed by offering the vendors the ability to prove that they have followed the IHE provisions in their products : the IHE Connectathon 5.Lets see what happen to the last one: SWF (3mn), PRI(1mn), CPI(1mn) 6.Learn about the 7 other IHE Integration profiles 7. overall departmental workflow in a multi-vendor radiology department.

IHE at RSNA 2002 Drive the 3 subthemes in the video: 1.Why do you care about IHE ? (1mn) 2.Learn how to Use IHE Integration Profiles in your procurement (10mn) 3.Check for yourself how several leading institutions (6mn) 1.Institution 1 witnesses, why did they use IHE, how did they did it, what was the result 2.Institution 2 witnesses, why did they use IHE, how did they did it, what was the result 3.Many other institutions have taken advantage of the products now available to achieve higher level of efficiency in their radiology department. XX success stories can be seem in the gallery 4.Notice the variety, small connectivity projects to large digital radiology integration, can be done with currently available products. 5.You can accelerate the process, approach your vendor, check the availability of IHE profiles for the new products you are planning to acquire, check that exisiting products can be upgraded.

IHE at RSNA 2002 Drive the subthemes in the video: 1.Why do you care about IHE ? (1mn) 2.Learn how to Use IHE Integration Profiles in your procurement (10mn) 3.Check for yourself how several leading institutions (6mn) 4.To know more about IHE (3mn) 1.The RSNA Web site 2.The brochures available here 3.The IHE conferences track and Inforad booth. 4.The Radiographics articles 5.The HIMSS Web accademy 6.The vendors participating 7.The Consultants 8.Contact the sites that have tried it 5.Your questions about IHE (5mn)