[Intl_DxMedPhys] Your "Use of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) radiology profiles"?

Fri Aug 21 14:09:39 EDT 2026

If they are not seeing clinical use via companies implementing them, I would not teach them. I was involved with one a while back. It had a lot of stakeholders, and was driven by clinical need. But in hindsight it was kind of academic and not really implemented today in the clinic. I am not sure how true this is in general for those profiles.

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University of Wisconsin Madison
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As an in house physicist, I have a little interaction with radIS, but I never had heavy informatics duties. The main things I partner with them on is of course reading workstations, home reading workstations mainly, and because we are switching
As an in house physicist, I have a little interaction with radIS, but I never had heavy informatics duties.  The main things I partner with them on is of course reading workstations, home reading workstations mainly, and because we are switching our PACS vendor, fine tuning the final look and display features.  RadIS here has a very large team and I often tell them that I think they have one of the most stressful jobs in the hospital 😭.

That being said, a physicist in training definitely needs to learn DICOM standards and all the terminology associated with informatics in order to communicate properly with their IS department.  I haven’t read what residents are required to learn now, but I feel as if my training in residency (2014) was appropriate.

Gretchen R. Bell, M.S., DABR
Diagnostic Imaging Physicist
Ochsner Medical Center
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM Joshua M Wilson via Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list at lists.osu.edu<mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
I'm curious to know how, if at all, clinical imaging physicists use or interact with IHE Radiology Profiles at your institutions. As a program director for a CAMPEP-accredited imaging residency, I try to faithfully meet all the CAMPEP standards,
I'm curious to know how, if at all, clinical imaging physicists use or interact with IHE Radiology Profiles at your institutions.

As a program director for a CAMPEP-accredited imaging residency, I try to faithfully meet all the CAMPEP standards, one of which lists under Informatics, "Use of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) radiology profiles". At my institution/enterprise, I would describe myself as heavily involved in the informatics landscape for more than a decade, but with the rare exception of one individual, I've literally never heard of IHE Radiology Profiles mentioned. However, I go to AAPM meetings and IHE-RO is so high profile as to get a badge ribbon.

When I dutifully check the IHE Radiology wiki and discuss it/IT (pun-intended) with residents, I see that some profiles are actively being worked on, so it isn't defunct. My conjecture about why it is a residency standard for imaging physicists is:

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When the standard was written a decade-or-more ago, it really was something that physicists were involved with, but healthcare/radiology informatics has grown so much that it requires its own specialization now owned elsewhere (e.g., SIIM and CIIP).
  2.
The radiation therapy program's CAMPEP Informatics IHE-RO standard was written, and then it was copy-pasted to imaging and just assumed that IHE Radiology Profiles was as big a thing for imaging physicists.

Or, are all you imaging physicists out there actively involved in IHE Radiology Profiles at your institutions and I'm missing out?

Best,
Josh

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Joshua M. Wilson, PhD, DABR

Radiation Physicist, Duke Clinical Imaging Physics Group

Director, Duke Imaging Physics Residency Program

     Duke Health

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
     Duke University, School of Medicine
Faculty, Medical Physics Graduate Program
     Duke University, Graduate School
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