IHE Demonstrations

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) in the UK

IHE Cross Enterprise Document and Image Sharing (XDS) is possible between two different areas of the UK.

Participating companies are as follows:
Alert Life Sciences Computing, E.Novation UK, Forcare, GE Healthcare, IBM, Medical Connections, Rogan-Delft, Siemens Healthcare.

The demonstration used the scenario of a patient moving at some time in the future between two areas of the UK within which IHE Cross Enterprise Document sharing (XDS) has been set up.  It should be stressed that we demonstrated potential not actual facilities.  The patient lives in one of these areas which is a Local Healthcare Community (LHC) in the Midlands.  This is called ‘Home Local Healthcare Community’ in this demonstration.  The patient is referred by his GP to the local hospital where he is examined and drug treatment is started.  He then goes on holiday in Wales where he becomes unwell and visits an A&E department. Since we are imagining that a pan Wales XDS facility for document and image sharing has been set up, previous images and associated documents are immediately available for review.  The drug levels are adjusted and the patient is able to resume his holiday.

At the end of the demonstration the patient visits his GP in Home Local Healthcare Community where all documents and images that have been submitted for sharing in both areas are available for review. 

Support for the use of multiple patient identifiers and audit trail based security is also demonstrated.

Stand sponsors
iSOFT: Educational grant regarding IHE Interoperability Demonstration
Acuo Technologies: Educational grant in support of stand presentation area