WoHIT: Invitation to participate at the 2010 Interoperability Showcase

At World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition, held during the 2010 eHealth week in Barcelona, March 15-18, 2010

Published: 10/27/2009

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - (HealthTech Wire / News) - The Interoperability Showcase has traditionally demonstrated how easy it is for commercial products to interoperate when IHE  (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) is supported. Clinical scenarios have been demonstrated to help the public understand how technical frameworks such as IHE, enable access to healthcare information and encourages its adoption using existing products.

At the 2010 World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition (WoHIT), taking place during 2010 eHealth week, a new approach is being investigated for the Interoperability Showcase. Besides the demonstration of the interoperability of commercial products, the 2010 Interoperability Showcase is aiming at displaying IHE-based EPR projects  in Europe.

eHealth week 2010 is a conference & exhibition, encompassing the the High Level eHealth Conference and WoHIT. The event is dedicated to truly enhance ICT for healthcare across Europe, attracting government decision makers and industry leaders alike. eHealth week 2010 is the ideal venue to be visible in the Interoperability Showcase.

Should you represent a regional, national, European-wide project or initiative that uses IHE as its technical framework for interoperability, and would like to show the benefits of your project in the WoHIT and e-Health Conference 2010, Interoperability Showcase, please, send us a short e-mail of interest and contact data before Wednesday, November 4th 2009 to:

Octavio Barbero
Project Manager for IHE Interoperability Showcase
obarbero@chc.cat

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1. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE, www.ihe.net) is a joint initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively.

2. The benefits of easier access from professionals to patient-related information are substantial! Imagine you could access all your healthcare information at any moment and from any where, no matter where it was generated (normally scattered among a number of primary care centers, hospitals, private physician’s practice…) in a private and secure way. That is the basis for the electronic patient record (EPR) that many countries in Europe and around the world are developing. IHE enables such access and is becoming the technical framework for nation-wide EPRs.