"IHE welcomes this opportunity to collaborate with Continua to promote the need for interoperable devices that seamlessly and accurately capture patient and consumer data," said Joyce Sensmeier, RN, HIMSS vice president, informatics. HIMSS, in partnership with the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), introduced the IHE initiative in 1998. Ms. Sensmeier continues as the IHE contact for HIMSS. "The healthcare industry is advancing toward the adoption of electronic medical records and other health IT systems, and automatically capturing and transporting data through devices will streamline workflow and improve the quality and efficiency of care delivery and enhance consumer health."

About Continua: The Continua Health Alliance is a collaborative industry organization dedicated to bringing together standards and diverse technology to create new health and wellness solutions. The Continua Health Alliance envisions a market place of interoperable devices that enable better care, empower consumers and connect healthcare providers to their patients. Continua focuses on three key categories: Health and Fitness, Chronic Disease Management, Aging Independently and promotes better management of health and wellness at every stage of life.


About IHE: IHE is a global initiative, now in its tenth year that creates the framework for passing vital health information seamlessly- from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting - across multiple healthcare enterprises. IHE brings together health information technology stakeholders to implement standards for communicating patient information efficiently throughout and among healthcare enterprises by developing a framework of interoperability. Because of its proven process of collaboration, demonstration and real world implementation of interoperable solutions, IHE is in a unique position to significantly accelerate the process for defining, testing, and implementing standards-based interoperability among electronic health record systems.

About HIMSS: The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., Brussels, and other locations across the United States and Europe, HIMSS represents more than 20,000 individual members and over 350 corporate members that collectively represent organizations employing millions of people. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems' contributions to ensuring quality patient care.

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