IHE-Europe launches health IT interoperability testing service
IHE-Europe, a nonprofit association dedicated to interoperability in health IT, has launched IHE-Services, a health IT connectivity and interoperability testing service that the Belgium-based organization believes will benefit large-scale health IT initiatives and efforts to design new health IT products.
“The lack of interoperability between the systems used by different healthcare providers has been the greatest obstacle to a wider use of IT for better healthcare,” IHE-Europe Users’ Co-Chair Jacqueline Surugue said.
“Offering a responsive service with access to the testing tools and expertise developed for IHE-Europe responds to a growing demand from e-health initiatives across Europe,” she continued.
IHIE-Europe partnered with Kereval, a software testing company, and Inria, a computer science research firm, in order to make the vendor-neutral IHE-Services available.
“The lack of interoperability between the systems used by different healthcare providers has been the greatest obstacle to a wider use of IT for better healthcare,” IHE-Europe Users’ Co-Chair Jacqueline Surugue said.
“Offering a responsive service with access to the testing tools and expertise developed for IHE-Europe responds to a growing demand from e-health initiatives across Europe,” she continued.
IHIE-Europe partnered with Kereval, a software testing company, and Inria, a computer science research firm, in order to make the vendor-neutral IHE-Services available.