by John Orth, White Paper
02-18-2008
Overview:
Because of the high mobility of patients within and among metropolitan areas, there is a growing need for the exchange of patient information among physicians, medical specialists and healthcare organizations over multiple networks that utilize different standards. The Integrated Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) solution is a standards-based software system that was developed to meet this demand while at the same time preserving the security and privacy of each patient’s records. Its centralized architecture was designed in close collaboration with the medical information technology and physician communities to enable the secure exchange of both image-based and electronic patient records across networks of healthcare providers and insurance companies. The IHE solution provides physicians, hospitals, insurance carriers and other healthcare professionals with a platform-independent, scaleable, upgradeable - and above all, reliable - method of complying with standards that is interoperable with existing networks and systems. Accordingly, the IHE initiative supports the secure sharing of all medical data in the USA and abroad and is compliant with HIPAA regulations.
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