The challenge of integrating the healthcare enterprise

Surgical Data Science -- from Concepts toward Clinical Translation

“…Data access and exchange: In the perioperative environment, the nonprofit organization Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE, Oak Brook, Illinois, USA) has been a driving force in forming a set of standards that facilitate data exchange (Grimes, 2005). It identifies clinical use cases, their requirements and relevant standards, and publishes guidelines (called "profiles") on how to fulfill such use cases.…”

E-health integration and interoperability based on open-source information technology

“…Th e open approach followed by O3 Consortium is intended in its widest meaning: OS of course, but even open standards and open interfaces. Furthermore, O3 has chosen to adhere to Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), the new worldwide interoperability initiative [11,12]. Th is initiative aims to solve real integration problems, that IHE calls Profi le, using a set of communication rules (transactions) between systems (Actors).…”

Optimization and Implementation of a Collaborative Learning Algorithm for an AI-Enabled Real-time Biomedical System

“…In the conventional medical system, diagnosis is managed by doctors or experts. Such procedures usually take long time, and when there is rapid increase in the number of patients, the human experts face a big challenge of working effectively while avoiding medical errors [3,4]. Particularly, the spread of COVID-19 disease has shown that a more reliable and fast diagnosis system is urgently needed [5,6].…”