IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information.
IHE promotes the coordinates use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively.
Simon Lettelier describes the details of the new domain in his post.
IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) Pharmacy domain is created.
This new domain (as others IHE domains) is global.
We are searching sponsors at a worldwide level.
So, feel free to contact the IHE Pharmacy secretary ( simon [.] letellier {@} phast [.] fr ).
Please feel free too to repost, or to forward as email, this information to any organization of interest.
Details below in the IHE Pharmacy - outreach letter :
Dear All,
The pharmacy ecosystem increasingly becomes complex and requires a good interoperability among the participating systems. As a result, IHE International recently created a new global IHE Pharmacy domain with the goal to address the interoperability needs of information sharing systems and workflow systems for community pharmacists and hospital pharmacists. A description of the most important Use Cases can be found in the Pharmacy White Paper (PDF), prepared by IHE Europe.
The initial sponsors of IHE Pharmacy (EAHP, NICTIZ, Phast, GMSIh) have an European scope. In order to reflect the global nature of IHE Pharmacy, we want to outreach our membership and sponsorship to other regions and stakeholders.
According to the IHE Governance document ( here), a domain sponsor provides financial and other resources to support the activities in its domain (e.g. hosting meetings, serving as secretariat).
Hence, if your organization is interested to sponsor or participate in the new IHE Pharmacy domain, please contact the IHE Pharmacy secretary Simon Letellier ( simon [.] letellier {@} phast [.] fr ), by preference before end March 2009. Please feel free to forward this email to any organization of interest.
The creation of a new IHE domain always is an exciting experience and we hope that you want to participate in this challenging effort to improve the interoperability in the pharmacy domain.
We are available to handle further questions and look forward to hear from you.
Kind regards
Geert Claeys
On behalf of IHE Pharmacy Domain Sponsors
Source
http://simonletellier.blogspot.com/2009/03/ihe-pharmacy-domain-is-born-onward.html
