IHE Devices Technical Framework Supplement Published for Trial Implementation

Hello IHE Canada Community Members,

The IHE Devices Technical Committee has published the following updated Technical Framework Supplement for trial implementation as of July 1, 2024:

• Point-of-Care Identity Management (PCIM) - Rev. 2.1

PCIM Rev. 2.1 Highlights:

The latest PCIM supplement for trial implementation incorporates working group efforts that resulted in simplification of the design to better align with existing system architectures to minimize roll-out time. Additional details have been added throughout and error codes were introduced. New and noteworthy changes include:

• The PCIM supplement is now an HTML publication authored in AsciiDoc and maintained on the IHE / DEV.PCIM GitHub repository.
• PCD-17 (assert association) and PCD-18 (assert disassociation) transactions were combined into a DEV-51 (communicate association state) transaction.
• A DEV-52 (report association state) transaction was added to reflect the manager to consumer reporting of real-time association status events. A separate transaction between the manager and consumer actors and reporter and manager actors is consistent with IHE assignments and it allows for different message content and constraints.
• The DEV-19 (query associations subscription) transaction is now optional and no longer includes a “snapshot” in the response. Instead, a DEV-52 sequence for all selected associations are sent from the manager to the specified consumer.
• The PCD-20 transaction and DREG Actor are eliminated from this specification. References to MEM DMC capabilities to address registration and reporting of device association availability have been added.

The profile contained within the above document may be available for testing at subsequent IHE Connectathons. The document is available at profiles.ihe.net/DEV/index.html. Comments on this and all IHE Devices documents are welcome at any time and can be submitted via traditional methods at Devices Public Comments or by submitting a PCIM GitHub Issue .

Best regards,
Helen