We are offering these profiles for testing at the October 2016 connectathon:

(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, 29, 2016 - new in U-EYECARE for 2016, as modified by a Change Proposal, 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)

-- EC-Summary Trial Implementation Supplement, July 2015

(3) General Eye Evaluation (GEE) 

-- GEE Trial Implementation Supplement, v8, includes CP, from Don on Aug 9

CHANGE PROPOSALS:  Implementers from last year's connectathon should review Change Proposals (CPs that were approved and applied to the 2016 version of Eye Care domain profiles.  Please refer to this Spreadsheet of Eye Care CPs.  You will find a list of approved CPs and a link to each CP.

October 10-13, 2016 (detailed timeline below)

RSNA Headquarters -- Oak Brook, Illinois, USA

Lynn Felhofer - 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 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 23 for the group rate

EyeCare_Connectathon_2016_Shipping_Information.pdf -- read this if you need to ship equipment to the Connectathon

July 13

WHAT'S NEW?  To view an overview of what's new in IHE Eye Care, we highly recommend that you watch a recording of the July 13 Eye Care webinar as part of IHE's annual webinar series.

Aug 1

11am EDT

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

Links to: Recording (.wmv format) or Recording (.mp4 format) and Slides 

Sep 19-23

Connectathon week!

Oct 10-13

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 - Connectathon testing         

Wed - 1pm-5pm - Demonstration testing starts; wrap-up of last connectathont tests

Thu - 9am-noon - Demo testing continues. All participants must stay until the connectathon closes at noon.

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 **2016** 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".

Lynn also created this PDF which overlays test partners onto the actor/transaction diagrams:  Connectathon_Registration_Visual-20161006.pdf

Participants' DICOM images, GEE, and EC-Summary samples are uploaded here: ftp://ftp.aao.org/IHE_Eye_Care_Connectathon_2016/Pre-Connectathon-Samples/

(username/password is ihe/ihe)

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_2016/  username/password is ihe/ihe)

EyeCare_Connectathon_2016_Network_Information.pdf -- This document describes the network environment during Connectathon week.

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.

Connectathon kick-off webinar -- Aug 1

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

Links to: Recording (.wmv format) or Recording (.mp4 format) and 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 Connectathons from 2012-15, 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

Gazelle - How to enter and share your configuration parameters

- entering DICOM & HL7v2 parameters for your test system

- finding & exporting your test partners' configurations

- recording | .mp4

- .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 - .ppt (May 2012)

How to use Order Manager to create Modality Worklist  .mp4 (Jan 2013)

HowToUseOrderManagerToCreateMWL-withScreenshots.pdf

Content Creators can validate GEE & EC-Summary documents using schematron generated by the Art Decor tool.  See instructions in pre-Connectathon test EVS_CDA_Validation.