IHE 2005 Webinar Series

These two-hour educational sessions provide implementation guidelines, presented by the developers of the IHE integration profiles.  Click on highlighted titles to download PowerPoint slides.  To register for upcoming events, contact Contact LaVerne Palmer at lpalmer@himss.org (312-915-9236).

Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)
Tuesday, August 16
Bill Majurski, National Institute for Standards and Technology

The Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) profile facilitates the registration, distribution and access of patient electronic health records across health enterprises. XDS is focused on providing a standards-based specification for managing the sharing of documents between any healthcare enterprise, ranging from a private physician office to a clinic to an acute care in-patient facility.

Patient Identifier Cross Referencing (PIX),  Patient Demographics Query (PDQ) and Implementing PIX and PDQ in a RHIO Environment
Thursday, August 18
Mike Henderson, Eastern Informatics; Yongjain Bao, GE Healthcare

The Patient Identifier Cross-referencing (PIX) profile facilitates the creation and maintenance of an enterprise or cross-enterprise master patient index by allowing patient identifiers to be mapped between independent identification domains, such as hospitals, clinics, payers, and regional consortia. The Patient Demographics Query (PDQ) profile provides standard queries that allow users to retrieve of patient demographic and visit information based on partial or full patient identification and/or location information.

Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA)
Monday, August 29
Rob Horn, Agfa Healthcare

The Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA) profile defines the node security requirements for both local security and network connection authentication, and the audit trail requirements for the privacy & security audit trail reports and transportation. This is appropriate for both within the enterprise and cross-enterprise connections.

Cross-Enterprise Sharing of Medical Summaries (XDS-MS)
Tuesday, August 30
Keith Boone, Dictaphone

The Cross-Enterprise Sharing of Medical summaries (XDS-MS) profile and associated medical summary content enables physicians and hospitals to share key summary information for transfer of care by making clinical documents available to other provider organizations in an interoperable RHIO environment.

Cross-Enterprise User Authentication (XUA)
Thursday, September 1
John Moerhke, GE Healthcare

The Cross-Enterprise User Authentication (XUA) Profile provides the necessary federated user identity in cross enterprise transactions. The receiver of these transactions can use this user assertion to make access decisions and proper audit entries.

Document Digital Signature (DSG)
Thursday, September 8
Glen Marshall, Siemens Health Solutions; Gila Pyke, Smart Systems for Health Agency; Lori Reed–Fourquet, e-HealthSign, LLC

The Document Digital Signature (DSG) profile provides the document content template for creating healthcare providers' digital signatures for electronic clinical documents. Those who use digitally signed documents receive assurance of the documents' authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiability.