IHE Connectathon 2007

The page comes to give few references and guidness to ISVs who wish to use OHF for the

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IHE Connectathon.

What is IHE?

This paragraph is taken from the IHE Wiki, please visit the Wiki for more information and references.

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 needs 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.

Connectathon 2006

Though things have changed, it is good to newcomers to take a look at the results of the '06 connectathon in order to get a feeling of what they are heading to.

Connectathon 2007 references

The IHE Workshop 2006 site has most of the information regarding the '07 connectathon. The most relevant documents in the page (re Connectathon '07) are:

• This documents contains all the relevant details including
  • Purpose of the Connectathon
  • Connectathon Registration
  • Registration/System Requirements
  • Connectathon Fees
  • Profiles to be Tested
  • MESA
  • Connectathon Test Process
  • Connectathon / Demonstration Linkage
  • Connectathon Rules
  • Important Dates
• A short summarization in a presentation.

Key dates

Disclaimer: The dates where taken from this document and may not be up to date and accurate. The dates are here in order to give the notion of what are we talking about. Please refer to the IHE official documents in order to get the most up to date information.

Aug 15 – Sep 30, 2006	Telephone interviews conducted by Technical Project Manager for each Connectathon system. No system can complete registration without a 15 minute telephone interview with the Connectathon Technical Project Managers (Moore, Felhofer).
Aug 15, 2006	Electronic registration for Connectathon opens; paper registration for Connectathon 2007, HIMSS 2007 and ACC 2007 are based on electronic registration. Electronic registration: http://ihe-kudu.wustl.edu/na2007
Sep 15, 2006	All registration for NA 2007 closes. By this date, you should have completed: Electronic registration for Connectathon Sent paper contract with payment to RSNA for Connectathon Sent paper contract with payment to HIMSS (if applicable) Sent paper contract with payment to ACC (if applicable)
Oct 1, 2006	Class A MESA results are due. This is for all participants in NA 2007 Connectathon. (Classes of MESA tests are explained in Appendix A). Enter these in Kudu (http://ihe-kudu.wustl.edu/na2007).
Oct 13, 2006	HIMSS 2007 Interoperability Showcase Demonstration Managers meet to define demonstration groups. Demonstration groups to be presented at participant meeting Oct 19-20.
Oct 1-15, 2006	Sometime during these two weeks, a Webex will be scheduled to go over Connectathon process.
Oct 19-20, 2006	Two day mandatory meeting for participants involved in ACC 2007 and HIMSS 2007 Interoperability Showcase demonstrations. Any Connectathon participant not involved in those demonstrations should not attend this meeting. (http://www.ihe.net/Events/upload/IHEWorkshop2006_HIMSS_education_demo_js.pdf)
Nov 1, 2006	Class B MESA results are due. See Appendix for a list of Class B Integration Profiles. Enter these in Kudu (http://ihe-kudu.wustl.edu/na2007).
Nov 1	Digital certificates published for systems who have completed Connectathon configuration. Use these for testing with NIST and for Connectathon testing.
Dec 1, 2006	Class C MESA results are due. See Appendix for a list of Class C Integration Profiles.
Dec 1, 2006	Configuration information due for all participants in NA 2007 Connectathon. Enter these in Kudu (http://ihe-kudu.wustl.edu/na2007).
Jan 15, 2007	System setup begins at 8:30. Connectathon testing begins promptly at 11:00. Participants are responsible for knowing network information and connecting to network.
Jan 16-17, 2007	Connectathon Conference program takes place, including organized tours of testing area by conference participants
Jan 19, 2007	Connectathon ends promptly at 12:00.

OHF Support for tests

Some of the links in this sections are avaliable only for Connectathon perticipants.

Applications and Actors

Application	XDS Document Consumer	XDS Document Source	PIX Consumer	PIX Source	PDQ Consumer	Secure Node
OpenEMR	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
CapMed	???	???	???	???	???	???
Wellogic	???	???	???	???	???	???
Blueware	???	???	???	???	???	???

Application	Connectathon perticipation	Query Registry
OpenEMR	Yes	Yes

MESA tests

Test	Applications to run the test	Test status

Connecathon tests

Test	Applications to run the test	Test status