@misc{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00064259,
 author = {Ando, Yutaka and 安藤 裕},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve
the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes
the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to
address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care. IHE
defines many Integration Profiles. Integration Profile describes use
cases, actors and transactions. There are many problems in hospital
information systems. To solve these problems IHE defines the usage of
standards and does not develop standards, to analysis and define the
clinical workflow and to perform a connection testing (Connectathon).
Now IHE is expanding to worldwide. Profit of the IHE in installing HIS
is obvious. But the merit of the IHE is limiting.  Users can easily
refer the IHE technical framework as the Request For Proposal. When we
introduce a multi-vender IHE system, the IHE system demand cost than a
single-vender system? Because of the lack of experiences, we will have
to pay many efforts. Standardization is very important. So we are
promoting the IHE concept for the Japanese hospitals and clinics. At
first, IHE technical framework was developed from the radiology domain.
But now technical framework expands to many domains such as laboratory,
cardiology, radiation oncology and so on. IHE has a power to cover the
hospital information system and will become powerful tool to cooperate
between hospitals.
IHE is best solution to deal with the problem in clinical workflow. By
using IHE integration profiles, IHE can improve in clinical workflow by
promoting the Information Communication Technology., CARS2011 ( 25rd International Congress and Exhibition )},
 title = {IHE activity in Japan - Coordination between  systems and standardization -},
 year = {2011}
}