Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PaLM) Domain
Comments and implementer feedback on all documents can be submitted at PaLM Public Comments. Additionally, for documents maintained in the IHE GitHub Repository (if any), a link to submit GitHub issues is included following the document name in the lists below.
Technical Framework (Revision 10.0)
All Normative Final Text Profiles
- Volume 1 (PaLM TF-1): Profiles
- Volume 2: Transactions - Volume 2 is divided into four separate sub-volumes:
- Volume 3 (PaLM TF-3): Content Modules
These Technical Framework Volumes provide specification of the following profiles. (Note: For all profiles, the actors and supported transactions are found in Volume 1. Segment definitions common to all are in Volume 2x.)
- Laboratory Analytical Workflow (LAW) - see Volume 2b
- Laboratory Testing Workflow (LTW) - see Volume 2a
- Laboratory Device Automation (LDA) - see Volume 2a
- Laboratory Point Of Care Testing (LPOCT) - see Volume 2c
- Laboratory Code Set Distribution (LCSD) - see Volume 2c
- Laboratory Specimen Barcode Labeling (LBL) - see Volume 2c
- Sharing Laboratory Reports (XD-LAB) - see Volume 3
Brief descriptions of these profiles are available here.
Supplements for Trial Implementation
Comments and implementer feedback on all documents can be submitted at PaLM Public Comments. Additionally, for documents maintained in the IHE GitHub Repository (if any), a link to submit GitHub issues is included following the document name in the lists below.
The IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Technical Committee invites organizations to begin development work based on the following supplements to the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Technical Framework. These trial implementation profiles are eligible for testing at subsequent IHE Connectathons.
- Anatomic Pathology Reporting to Public Health (ARPH) - Published 2010-07-23
- Anatomic Pathology Structured Report (APSR) - Published 2018-09-28
- Digital Pathology Workflow - Image Acquisition (DPIA) - Published 2020-08-14
- Graphics and Simple Images in Results (GIR) - Published 2010-10-15
- Inter-Laboratory Workflow (ILW) - Revised 2013-11-08
- Laboratory Clinical Communications (LCC) - Published 2019-06-12
- Radiology Pathology Concordance (RPC) - Published 2021-11-23
- Specimen Event Tracking (SET) - Published 2021-11-23
- Transfusion Medicine - Administration (TMA) - Published 2019-10-22
Handbooks
None
White Papers
None
Archive
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Archives
The archive 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
- IHE_PaLM_TF_Vol1
- IHE_PaLM_Suppl_SET
- IHE_PaLM_TF_Rev10-0_Vol1_FT_2019-08-20
- IHE_PaLM_Suppl_SET_Rev1-1_TI_2021-11-23