1. IHE: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
It is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information.

2. Prioritized Projects Improve patient-ID binding
Enhance device-enterprise communication
Promoting the development of easy-to-use

3. IHE Integration Profiles
It describes a clinical information need or workflow scenario and
document how to use established standards (e.g. HL7, DICOM, LOINC...) to accomplish it.

4. characteristics of IHE Integration Profiles
Each Integration Profile is based on relevant use-cases described by real users.
Integration Profiles are independent of manufacturers or products.
Integration Profiles are stable once published.

5. Some Definitions

6. IHE Integration Statements
Are simple documents prepared and published by a vendor to list the IHE Profiles supported by a specific release of a specific product.

7. IHE Technical Frameworks
Are the detailed documents which specify the Integration Profiles and the associated actors (systems) and transactions.

8. IHE Connectathons
Are annual events where equipment vendors bring products with IHE Profiles and test them with other vendors.

9. IHE Profiles published in trial implementation or in final text
Anatomic Pathology
Cardiology
Eye Care
IT Infrastructure
Laboratory
Patient Care Coordination
Patient Care Devices
Radiation Oncology
Radiology

10. IT Infrastructure profiles

11. Consistent Time (CT)
Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA)
Request Information for Display (RID)
Enterprise User Authentication (EUA)
Patient Identifier Cross Referencing (PIX)
Patient Synchronized Application (PSA)
Patient Demographics Query (PDQ)
Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)
Personnel White Pages (PWP)
Cross-Enterprise Document Media Interchange (XDM)
Cross-Enterprise Document Reliable Interchange (XDR)
Patient Identifier Cross-Reference and Patient Demographics Query for HL7v3 (PIX/PDQ/v3)
Retrieve Form for Data Capture (RFD)