Devices (DEV) Domain

Technical Framework (Revision 10.0)

All Normative Final Text Profiles

• Volume 1 (DEV TF-1): Profiles - Published 2024-11-04
• Volume 2 (DEV TF-2): Transactions - Published 2024-11-04
• Volume 3 (DEV TF-3): Semantic Content - Published 2024-11-04

These Technical Framework Volumes provide specification of the following profiles:

• Alert Communication Management (ACM)
• Device Enterprise Communication (DEC)
• Implantable Device – Cardiac Observation(IDCO)
• Infusion Pump Event Communication (IPEC)
• Point-of-Care Infusion Verification (PIV)
• Rosetta Terminology Mapping (RTM)

Brief descriptions of these profiles are available here.

Public Comment

None currently

Supplements for Trial Implementation

Submit your comments here. Additionally, for documents maintained in the IHE GitHub Repository, a link to submit GitHub issues is included following the document name in the list below.

The IHE Devices Technical Committee invites organizations to begin development work based on the following supplements to the Devices Technical Framework. These trial implementation profiles are eligible for testing at subsequent IHE Connectathons.

• Medical Equipment Management Device Management Communication (MEMDMC) - Revised 2024-09-19
• Medical Equipment Management Location Services (MEMLS) - Revised 2024-09-19
• Personal Health Device Observation Upload (POU) - Published 2020-04-13
• Point-of-Care Identity Management (PCIM) - Revised 2024-12-05 (Create a GitHub Issue)
• Pulse Oximetry Integration (POI) - Published 2012-08-16
• Retrospective Data Query (RDQ) - Published 2012-08-16
• Service-oriented Device Point-of-care Interoperability (SDPi) - Revised 2025-05-09 (Create a GitHub Issue)
• SDPi Requirements Compilation (for current release)
• Subscribe to Patient Data (SPD) - Published 2007-07-29 (Reissued for NA2012 on 2011-11-11)
• Waveform Content Module (WCM) - Revised 2018-01-08

Handbooks

The Devices Technical Committee has published the following handbooks.

• IHE Patient Care Device User Handbook - 2018 Edition (aka "PCD Cookbook") - Published 2018-04-12

White Papers

The Devices Technical Committee has published the following white papers. These white papers facilitate the use of existing IHE Devices profiles or scope the need for future profiles.

• Infusion Pump IV Flush White Paper - Published 2025-05-09
• Medical Device Software Patching - Revised 2015-10-14
• Medical Equipment Management (MEM) White Paper - Published 2009-09-01
• Medical Equipment Management (MEM): Cyber Security White Paper - Published 2011-05-27
• Medical Equipment Management (MEM): Medical Device Cyber Security – Best Practice Guide - Published 2015-10-14
• MEM Remote Device Command (RDC) - Published 2018-10-23
• Point-of-Care Identity Management (PCIM) - Published 2017-06-16
• Service-oriented Device Point-of-Care Interoperability (SDPi) - Published 2019-11-01
• Companion to Service-oriented Device Point-of-Care Interoperability (SDPi) White Paper - Published 2019-11-01

Archives

Please note the following regarding Devices Archives:

• Some Devices documents are published as HTML and are identified above with the icon. For these documents, archives of the HTML publication are available as described here. Prior PDF format archives are available on the Devices page as discussed below.
• Supplements, white papers, and handbooks published in PDF form, or prior versions of all specifications in PDF form, can be found at the Devices Archives as described below.

The Devices Archives page contains deprecated supplements and superseded versions of the Technical Framework volumes, white papers and handbooks. As of July 2012, it also contains:

• Superseded versions of trial implementation supplements
• Current published versions of the Technical Framework volumes and supplements

Current documents (published July 2012 or later) have generic files names, for example:

• IHE_PCD_TF_Vol1
• IHE_PCD_Suppl_PCIM

Those links always return the most recent published document and support linking (Technical Framework Volumes only) to specific sections (section linking details here). File names on the archives page include revision numbers, status and date of publication, and can be used to link to specific versions of a document:

• IHE_PCD_TF_Rev2-0_Vol1_FT_2019-12-12
• IHE_PCD_Suppl_PCIM_Rev1-2_TI_2018-12-07