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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is a world-wide initiative that enables Healthcare IT system users and suppliers to work together to obtain 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. It runs annual week long test sessions where suppliers demonstrate that their software can interoperate successfully with the software of other suppliers with regard to support for certain basic healthcare tasks as specified in the IHE Integration Profiles Technical Framework documents. These annual test sessions are called ‘Connectathons’. Purchasers can be confident that systems purchased from companies whose software has passed the relevant tests will interoperate as specified.

The IHE International organisation is responsible for the creation and maintenance of IHE Integration Profiles , through a number of Domain Committees including Radiology, Oncology, Laboratory, and Pharmacy. There is also an “IT Infrastructure” Domain committee whose Integration Profiles provide general IT Infrastructure scenarios to support all other domains.

This document sets out the mission, governance framework and membership rules for the IHE-UK organization, a National affiliate to IHE International.

• Details about IHE may be found at: www.ihe.net
• Details about IHE-UK can be found at www.ihe-uk.org
• Details about the IHE Domains may be found at: http://www.ihe.net/Domains/index.cfm
• Details about the structure of IHE Technical Frameworks and Supplements may be found at: http://www.ihe.net/About/process.cfm and http://www.ihe.net/profiles/index.cfm
• The current version of the IHE Domains Technical Framework may be found at: http://www.ihe.net/Technical_Framework/index.cfm