Algotec participates in the 2000 IHE initiative

Ra’anana, Sept. 21, 2000

Algotec has always striven to support the latest industry standards, and employ the latest technologies in its products. The IHE forum is the ideal place to demonstrate and test Algotec’s capabilities.

For the second year running, Algotec Systems takes part in the IHE initiative. Algotec will demonstrate its Image Display System – MediPrime, and its digital archive – MediStore, both part of the Algotec IMAGINET family of solutions.

MediPrime, Algotec’s Reading and Reporting Station, will feature DICOM compatibility with MediStore and other DICOM based archives.

MediStore, Algotec’s archive, will feature DICOM connectivity to modalities and other display stations, and HL/7 connectivity to Information Systems, allowing MediStore to perform Pre-Fetching functions and control image Workflow.

What is IHE?

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is an initiative designed to stimulate the integration of the information systems that support modern healthcare institutions. Its fundamental objective is to ensure that in the care of patients, all required information for medical decisions is both correct and available to healthcare professionals. The initiative is sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

The IHE initiative defines ‘roles’ and ‘actors’ in Image Management and Information Systems. The forum then outlines the connectivity transactions and communication protocols between the actors using existing standards, and exactly what roles are played by each component in the system. The objective is to create a ‘Plug & Play’ environment in Healthcare – where customers can choose systems based on functionality alone, without the worries of integration between systems.

The IHE initiative provides a visible forum for encouraging the advancement and convergence of integration efforts through the definition of a technical framework and a multi-year series of public demonstrations of products implemented by industry in accordance with that framework. The approach employed in the IHE initiative is not to define new integration standards but rather to support the use of existing standards, e.g. DICOM, HL7, et al., in their respective domains in an integrated manner, defining configuration choices when necessary. When clarifications or extensions to existing standards are necessary, IHE refers recommendations to the relevant standards bodies.