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IBM Interoperable Health Information Infrastructure (IHII) project is targeted at developing state-of-the-art technologies that enable the management and sharing of electronic healthcare records (EHRs) in a distributed heterogeneous environment. The IHII project, a joint collaboration of IBM Research and Development, serves as a foundation for the solution IBM proposed to the ONCHIT RFP. The development of such a solution is an essential step toward the ultimate goal of cross-institutional and longitudinal electronic healthcare records (EHRs).
The IHII architecture builds on concepts and recommendations from the IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) initiative. IHE provides a set of infrastructure profiles that define standard ways to integrate healthcare information within and across care delivery organizations. The IHII system will implement all aspects of the IHE infrastructure profile for Cross-enterprise Document Sharing (XDS). The XDS profile provides a standards-based specification for managing the exchange of documents that care delivery organizations have decided to explicitly share.
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