BCS IHE-UK
A35

Optimal patient care requires efficient access to comprehensive electronic healthcare records, and the BCS IHE-UK demonstration shows how this can be achieved when a patient visits a DGH, a teaching hospital and his GP. It shows the sharing of documents and images using the Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) profile developed by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), a not-for-profit organisation that enables healthcare-ICT system users and suppliers to work together to obtain interoperability of both new and existing computer systems. It can be used on a local, regional or national scale. Participating companies are AGFA, Forcare, IBM, Initiate, Simpl (with Microsoft) and Tiani.