Berwyn, Pennsylvania. The National Digital Medical Archive, Inc. (NDMA) has announced the availability of its IHE Integration Statement, after successful completion of testing IHE integration profiles and actors at the IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) North America Connectathon 2007.

The five-day Connectathon event, held January 15-19, 2007, brought together healthcare IT professionals from more than 77 companies in 19 countries, who tested their implementation of IHE capabilities with corresponding systems with at least three other participants per clinical use case.

As a result of its testing successes, NDMA is invited to participate in public IHE demonstrations that promote the implementation of multiple health-IT standards addressing specific clinical needs. The first opportunity to see such a demonstration is at the Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS07, the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), which will be held February 26 — March 1 in New Orleans, Louisiana. NDMA will also be exhibiting at Booth #461.

"We are very pleased with the outcome of our participation at Connectathon," said Derek Danois, NDMA president. "When different systems can communicate with each other directly, rather than through expensive and complex interfaces, the health system as a whole reaps the rewards — reduction of duplicate testing, improved medical management, delivery of higher quality healthcare and cost savings — just to name a few."

About IHE
IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. It promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively.

About the National Digital Medical Archive, Inc.
The National Digital Medical Archive, Inc. [NDMA], headquartered in Berwyn, PA, develops, designs and delivers a data management and communications infrastructure that enables on-demand access, visualization and distribution of diagnostic quality images and related clinical data. For more information, visit http://www.ndma.us or call Jolene Sarr at 610-249-0160.