How to use IHE for interoperability in your ehealth Project?

Interoperability in Digital Health is one of the key challenges for a successful deployment of an eHealth or health IT project.

Robust interoperability allows interactions between systems in a standardized way to ensure that the systems standardised way to ensure that the systems understand each other and foster the quality of exchanges. This It is not so obvious to understand why interoperability in eHealth project needs to receive special attention to achieve success. This is why IHE has been developing a structured and now proven methodology that leads to support the implementation of IHE Profiles and underlying standards in your eHealth or health IT project.

IHE with its 20 years of experience in interoperability and successful support to various eHealth projects across Europe and beyond, offers expertise in interoperability.  It enables the diversity of eHealth projects operating at different levels from local such as hospitals, regional/national and cross border.

These resources are presented in the following pages as accelerators and guidance for realising interoperability in your project.  They are organised along the various phases of eHealth projects, where information exchange between IT systems and devices needs to be achieved: