TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing connectivity issues
T2 - The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise-Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO) initiative
AU - Rengan, Ramesh
AU - Curran, Bruce
AU - Able, Charles
AU - Abdel-Wahab, May
AU - Ravi, Akkamma
AU - Albuquerque, Kevin
AU - Field, Colin
AU - Abdul, Sidrah
AU - Kapoor, Rishabh
AU - Tripuraneni, Prabhakar
AU - Palta, Jatinder
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Kate Dodd for her assistance with the review of the paper. The IHE-RO initiative is partially supported by Florida Biomedical Research Program Grant No. 09BW-09-26833.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - In today's world, treating a patient successfully with radiation requires the integration of complex data from a variety of systems. In a typical radiation oncology clinic, data move from the treatment management system to treatment planning system to treatment delivery system. When there is a lack of interconnectivity between the systems, the potential for medical error is increased. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise-Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO) is dedicated to the identification of connectivity problems encountered in the modern day radiation oncology clinic and the development of solutions to these problems. These solutions are then integrated and made available to the radiation oncology community. This article introduces the IHE-RO initiative, outlines the relevance of IHE-RO for the radiation oncology community, and provides a resource so that therapists, physicists, dosimetrists, administrators, and physicians alike can best understand which vendor equipment can effectively communicate between platforms because it has been deemed IHE-RO compliant through a series of connectivity tests.
AB - In today's world, treating a patient successfully with radiation requires the integration of complex data from a variety of systems. In a typical radiation oncology clinic, data move from the treatment management system to treatment planning system to treatment delivery system. When there is a lack of interconnectivity between the systems, the potential for medical error is increased. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise-Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO) is dedicated to the identification of connectivity problems encountered in the modern day radiation oncology clinic and the development of solutions to these problems. These solutions are then integrated and made available to the radiation oncology community. This article introduces the IHE-RO initiative, outlines the relevance of IHE-RO for the radiation oncology community, and provides a resource so that therapists, physicists, dosimetrists, administrators, and physicians alike can best understand which vendor equipment can effectively communicate between platforms because it has been deemed IHE-RO compliant through a series of connectivity tests.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.prro.2011.06.016
DO - 10.1016/j.prro.2011.06.016
M3 - Article
C2 - 24674000
AN - SCOPUS:80053578930
SN - 1879-8500
VL - 1
SP - 226
EP - 231
JO - Practical Radiation Oncology
JF - Practical Radiation Oncology
IS - 4
ER -