Charter Project: IHE project

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Charter Project IHE project

• Requesting approval in principle

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Scope Expected Contributions

• Initial contribution is a subset of the Eclipse
  OHF project, namely
• IHE component
• Bridge component
• The IHE Component is an implementation of
  Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
  profiles and transactions
• The IHE is a healthcare-focused body that
  profiles interoperability transactions through
  open standards (such as HL7 and DICOM)
• IHE component provides API-level tooling to IHE
  interoperability transactions, such as document
  and patient identity sharing
• Native Java, packaged as Eclipse plug-ins, 550k
  LOC
• The Bridge component is a server-side reference
  implementation of the IHE component, designed for
  use as a Web service (Tomcat/Axis)
• Provides simplified, platform-neutral access to
  IHE component
• JavaOSGi extensions, packaged as Eclipse
  plug-ins, the proposal use case for server-side
  Equinox, 20k LOC
• These two components combine to power over
  one-third of all client-side systems testing
  interoperability at IHE testing events
  (Connectathon/MESA)
• Only comprehensive, open source client-side IHE
  tools
• Effectively the de facto reference implementation
• Transfer existing source code and documentation,
  and contribute all future source code and
  documentation for these components to the IHE
  Charter Project at OHT
• No known potential IP issues. All code has been
  vetted for open source contribution already.