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PACS, ICRS and IHE: making sense of electronic healthcare records

¹ IHE-UK, 36 Portland Place, London W1B 1AT and ² The Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, 4th Floor, Holborn Union Building, Archway Campus, Highgate Hill, London N19 5LW, UK

• Complex modern healthcare delivery depends on appropriate access to currently relevant data, which implies interoperability of computer systems at a national scale.
  
• There is a growing expectation that relevant records will be multimedia records that include or reference images, waveforms and other large information objects as stored in PACS.
  
• The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative has implemented a methodology to enable users and suppliers in the medical imaging domain to work together to implement interoperable systems using subsets of existing standards.
  
• IHE provisions can form the basis for an important part of the patient record stored in electronic form.