Presentation

Context Overview

In the last century, healthcare IT have become a big support for medical data management. Due to the complexity of systems interoperability, from standards definition to their implementation, was created the IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) initiative in 1998 by the RSNA.

Since then, many countries all over the world get more and more involved to ensure interoperability between medical systems and the definition of integration profiles.

In this context, IHE Europe was founded in 2001 in order to implement this initiative and develop tools to improve integration profile implementation between healthcare IT companies and medical institutions.

History

IHE Development has been created in August 2006 as a development project. Eric Poiseau acts as the IHE European Technical project manager since IHE Europe started in 2001. He was then part of the IDM Laboratory at the University of Rennes 1 under the responsability of Bernard Gibaud.

He joined INRIA at the time of the creation of the VisAGeS Team. INRIA decided then to contribute to the promotion and development of IHE and created a development project.

As mentioned in the previous section the objectives and missions of the team are multiple :

• Organize and manage the yearly European Connectathon

• Contribute to the development of the IHE testing tool platform

• Contribute to the structuration/organization of IHE in Europe as well as at the worldwide level

• Provide a gateway between industry and the Inria research project

Team members

• Eric POISEAU: Team Leader
• Jean-Renan CHATEL: Expert Engineer (since 19/3/2007)
• Abdallah MILADI: Expert Engineer (since 1/9/2007)
• Anne-Sophie CARDIN: Associate Engineer (since 2/11/2007)
• Jean-Baptiste MEYER: Expert Engineer (since 19/5/2008)
• Anne-Gaelle BERGER: Ingénieur Jeune Diplomé (starting on 1/10/2009)
• Abderrazek BOUFAHJA: Expert Engineer (starting on 1/10/2009)
• Sara FREOUL : Project Assistant