Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

What is IHE?
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is an initiative promoting and supporting the integration of systems in the healthcare enterprise. Sponsored by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), it brings together medical professionals and the healthcare information and imaging systems industry. The goal is to improve the efficiency of clinical practice by considering the information availability, the workflow and the compatibility of cross vendor environments.

Integration Statement
Within the technical framework of the IHE, problem solution scenarios (so called 'Integration Profiles'), are defined. They describe the transfer ('Transactions') of data between different medical equipment ('Actors'). Based on the Integration Profiles the vendors test their equipment. The following IHE Integration Statements demonstrate the capability to interoperate in compliance with the IHE Integration Profile 'Consistent Presentation of Images' and 'Scheduled Workflow'. The IHE Integration Statements are intended for aycan customers to know precisely the IHE Integration capabilities currently offered by aycan products.

Consistent Presentation of Images
The Consistent Presentation of Images Integration Profile specifies a number of transactions that maintain the consistency of presentation for grayscale images and their presentation state information (including user annotations, shutters, flip/rotate, display area, and zoom). It also defines a standard contrast curve, the Grayscale Standard Display Function, against which different types of display and hardcopy output devices can be calibrated.

aycan IHE Integration Statement 06-01-2002
Vendor: aycan Digitalsysteme GmbH
Product Name: aycan print
Version: AYCAN PSpro2a 1.64 - Calibration 1.2 and newer

This product implements all transactions in the IHE Technical Framework to support the IHE Integration Profiles, Actors and Options listed below:

Integration Profiles: Consistent Presentation of Images
Actors Implemented: Print Server
Options Implemented: None

Links to general information on IHE
North America: www.ihe.net
Europe: www.ihe-europe.org
Japan: www.jira-net.or.jp/ihe-j