We are offering these profiles for testing at the IHE Eye Care Connectathon, October 23-25, 2017:

(1) Unified Eye Care Workflow (U-EYECARE)  The specification spans three documents, plus the underlying JOIA standard:

-- Eye Care Technical Framework Volume 1, Rev 4.0, June 2016 - profile description, actor rqmts & use cases
-- Eye Care Technical Framework Volume 2, Rev 4.0, June 2016 - detailed transaction specifications
-- Refractive Measurements Trial Implementation Supplement, June, 14, 2016 - new in U-EYECARE in 2016; based upon JOIA 1.5 Release
-- JOIA Std 1.5 - Common Specification for Output data of Ophthalmic Examination Equipment 

(2) Eye Care Summary Record (EC-Summary)

-- Eye Care Summary Trial Implementation Supplement - Aug 2017 version
--  -- it is temporarily made available here; it is pending publication on ihe.net
--  -- this version contains Word mark-up (for now) showing deltas from last year

(3) General Eye Evaluation (GEE) 

-- GEE Trial Implementation Supplement, Rev 2.2, December 2016

October 23-25, 2017 (detailed timeline below)

RSNA Headquarters -- Oak Brook, Illinois, USA

Lynn Felhofer - Gazelle questions/support; pre-Connectathon & Connectathon testing; technical & logistical support; profile questions

Don van Syckle - demonstration planning; profile questions

Flora Lum, M.D. - contracts, payment, AAO annual meeting, domain inquiries

iheeyecareconnectathon is the google email group we use to communicate with Connectathon participants regarding preparation steps from August through October.

To join the group, send an email to Lynn.  She will add you to the list serv.

The combined fee for the Connectathon and showcase is $15,000 per vendor.  Payment and contract is due to Flora on Nov 11.

The Marriott Residence Inn - Oak Brook is a 2-minute walk from the RSNA building.

Book your hotel room at the Residence Inn - click HERE by Sept 22 for the group rate

Details are here

July 27

WHAT'S NEW?  To view an overview of the profiles in IHE Eye Care, we highly recommend that you watch a recording of the July 27 Eye Care webinar as part of IHE's annual webinar series.

Aug 17

Connectathon kick-off webinar -- required for all Connectathon participants: Eye Care domain profile overview, review of Connectathon preparation & connectathon week testing, introduction to the 'gazelle' test management and conformance test tools, Q & A.  

-- Download and view the recording

-- Watch on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/KypoKCfBFbQ

-- Review the slides

Oct 9 - 11

Connectathon week!

Oct 23-25

Mon - 8:30-10am - Prepare to test: connect to the network, set up system & finish configurations  

Mon - 10am-5pm - Connectathon testing

Tues - 9am-5pm - Connectathon testing

Wed - 9am-noon - Wrap-up of last connectathont tests; transition to showcase demonstration practice.        

Wed - 1pm-3pm - Finish demonstration preparation.

Gazelle is IHE's online tool for managing registration, pre-Connectathon & Connectathon testing.

Note 1: If you are a returning participant, your old username/password still works!

Note 2: Be sure to select the IHE Eye Care **2017** testing session.

In gazelle, you can see what your fellow Connectathon participants -- your test partners -- have registered to test.  Choose gazelle menu Registration-->Registration overview.  You will see a table with all profiles/actors/options selected by each company/product.  At the bottom of the page, there is a link to "export as Excel file".  

NOTE:  This information will not be complete until after registration closes on Aug 25.

Participants' DICOM images, GEE, and EC-Summary samples are uploaded here: ftp://ftp.aao.org/IHE_Eye_Care_Connectathon_2017/Pre-Connectathon-Samples/ (contact Lynn for username/password)

Modality, Order Placer, and Order Filler systems must pre-load their systems wtih order/procedure codes for the connectathon & demonstration.  (Same as those used since 2013.) If your modality needs a code added, please contact Lynn.

(stored on ftp://ftp.aao.org/IHE_Eye_Care_Connectathon_2017/  -- contact Lynn for username/password)

This document describes the network environment during Connectathon week:  http://gazelle.ihe.net/files/EyeCare_Connectathon_Network_Information.pdf

This document contains a mapping between U-EYECARE actors, transaction & option and the Connectathon tests that exercise them.  

After reviewing this, you should review the individual tests in gazelle.  You can find them on your main connectathon page in gazelle under menu "Connectathon". There is also help for the Training section below.

IHE Annual Webinar Series - Eye Care Domain Update

WHAT'S NEW?  To view an overview of the profiles in IHE Eye Care, we highly recommend that you watch a recording of the July 27 Eye Care webinar as part of IHE's annual webinar series available here.

Connectathon kick-off webinar -- Aug 17, 2017

Eye Care domain profile review, review of Connectathon preparation & connectathon week testing, introduction to the 'gazelle' test management and conformance test tools, Q & A.  

-- Download and view the recording

-- Watch on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/KypoKCfBFbQ

-- Review the slides

1. User accounts: company & contact info: managing gazelle user accounts (logins) & company/organization details; entering contact information (**Same process as last year, if you participated in any Connectathons since 2012, your information is carried forward)
2. System registration: entering system(s), profiles, actors, and options you want to test
3. Participant registration: register staff who will attend

How to videos:

- Creating User Accounts, Organizations & Contacts (.mp4)

- Completing System Registration (.mp4)

Gazelle - How to enter and share your configuration parameters

- entering DICOM & HL7v2 parameters for your test system

- finding & exporting your test partners' configurations

- .mp4 | help page

Using gazelle to review Connectathon tests

How to use gazelle to read test instructions for IHE profiles you have registered to test 

Gazelle Order Manager

Overview presentation - slides 

How to use Order Manager to create Modality Worklist -  recording 

HowToUseOrderManagerToCreateMWL-withScreenshots.pdf