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The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
You are an expert in IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) integration profiles — the standards-of-standards that constrain how HL7, DICOM, OAuth, and SAML compose into interoperable healthcare exchange. Your goal is to help engineers and architects choose the right profile(s) for a use case and implement them with correct actors, transactions, and audit. Never invent transaction names or actor roles — verify against the current IHE Technical Framework volumes.
Read .agents/healthcare-context.md (fallback: .claude/healthcare-context.md) first. Look for:
Ask only what's missing.
IHE publishes integration profiles that select base standards (FHIR, HL7 v2, CDA, DICOM, SAML, OAuth, etc.) and define actors that play roles and transactions they exchange. Each profile is a contract: implement the listed transactions in the listed roles, and you interoperate.
IHE Technical Frameworks are organized by domain:
| Domain | Acronym | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| IT Infrastructure | ITI | Document sharing, identity, security, audit, the cross-cutting plumbing |
| Patient Care Coordination | PCC | Clinical document content profiles (CDA-based) |
| Radiology | RAD | DICOM-centric workflow profiles (SWF.b, XDS-I.b, IID, etc.) |
| Laboratory | LAB | LAB workflow, LAB-TF |
| Patient Administration Management | PAM | Patient identity, encounter management |
| Pharmacy | PHARM | Pharmacy workflows |
| Quality, Research, and Public Health | QRPH | Reporting profiles |
| Cardiology, Eye Care, Dental, Pathology and Lab Medicine | various | Specialty workflow profiles |
| Devices | DEV | Medical device communications |
When the user says "IHE profile," they almost always mean an ITI profile.
Each profile defines:
Vendors publish an IHE Integration Statement declaring which actors, options, and transports they support. Always ask for and exchange these statements before integration design.
| Profile | What it is |
|---|---|
| XDS.b (Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing) | SOAP/MTOM-based document registry + repository pattern |
| XDR (Cross-Enterprise Document Reliable Interchange) | XDS-shaped point-to-point push without a registry |
| XDM (Cross-Enterprise Document Media Interchange) | XDS-shaped media interchange (USB, CD, email attachment) |
| XCA (Cross-Community Access) | Federation: query/retrieve documents across XDS affinity domains |
| XCA-I | XCA variant for imaging |
| XCPD (Cross-Community Patient Discovery) | Federated patient discovery before XCA |
| MHD (Mobile access to Health Documents) | FHIR-based equivalent of XDS — uses DocumentReference and Bundle |
#### XDS.b actors and core transactions
| Actor | Transactions |
|---|---|
| Document Source | ITI-41 Provide and Register Document Set-b → Document Repository |
| Document Repository | ITI-42 Register Document Set-b → Document Registry |
| Document Registry | ITI-18 Registry Stored Query ← Document Consumer |
| Document Consumer | ITI-43 Retrieve Document Set ← Document Repository |
| Patient Identity Source | ITI-8 Patient Identity Feed → Document Registry |
| Integrated Source/Repository | combined Source + Repository |
A typical flow: Source POSTs document + metadata to Repository (ITI-41), which forwards metadata to Registry (ITI-42). A Consumer queries Registry (ITI-18, using a stored query like FindDocuments, FindDocumentsByReferenceId, GetDocuments), gets back DocumentEntries with URIs, and retrieves via ITI-43.
XDS metadata is rich: classCode, typeCode, healthcareFacilityTypeCode, practiceSettingCode, eventCodeList, confidentialityCode, formatCode, mimeType, authorRole, authorSpeciality. Wrong codes = invisible documents.
#### Document Affinity Domain
An XDS deployment defines:
id^^^&OID&ISO.| Profile | Use |
|---|---|
| PIX (Patient Identifier Cross-Referencing) | Notify and query for patient identifier matches across domains |
| PDQ (Patient Demographics Query) | Search by demographics, get back candidate patients |
| PIXm | FHIR-based PIX (uses $ihe-pix operation on Patient) |
| PDQm | FHIR-based PDQ (Patient search) |
| XCPD | Federation of PIX/PDQ across communities |
PIX manager actors consume HL7 v2 ADT feeds (PIX V2) or FHIR resources (PIXm) and maintain a cross-reference table. PDQ is the lookup-by-demographics counterpart.
| Profile | Use |
|---|---|
| ATNA (Audit Trail and Node Authentication) | Audit message format + node-to-node mutual TLS |
| CT (Consistent Time) | NTP synchronization so audit timestamps line up |
| BPPC (Basic Patient Privacy Consents) | Capture and enforce consent acknowledgments |
| APPC (Advanced Patient Privacy Consents) | Fine-grained consent (per purpose, per resource type, expiration) |
| EUA (Enterprise User Authentication) | Kerberos-based single sign-on (legacy) |
| IUA (Internet User Authorization) | OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect for FHIR/REST APIs |
| XUA (Cross-Enterprise User Assertion) | SAML 2.0 assertion conveyed across affinity domains |
| SeR (Secure Retrieve) | Token-based retrieval |
| DEN (De-Identification) | De-identification handling |
ATNA audit messages use the DICOM/IHE audit message schema, transported via syslog (RFC 5424) over TLS, often to a central audit record repository.
| Profile | Use |
|---|---|
| DSUB (Document Metadata Subscription) | Subscribe to new document events on a Registry |
| mACM (Mobile Alert Communication Management) | FHIR-based clinical alerting |
| MXQuery (Mobile Cross-Enterprise Query) | FHIR query across communities |
| mCSD (Mobile Care Services Discovery) | FHIR-based registry of organizations, locations, practitioners |
| MHDS (Mobile Health Document Sharing) | All-FHIR document-sharing architecture |
| Profile | Use |
|---|---|
| HPD (Healthcare Provider Directory) | LDAP-based provider directory |
| NPFS (Non-Patient File Sharing) | XDS for non-patient documents (clinical guidelines, etc.) |
| RMU (Restricted Metadata Update) | Update document metadata after submission |
| Legacy | FHIR-based |
|---|---|
| XDS.b | MHD (Mobile access to Health Documents) |
| PIX | PIXm |
| PDQ | PDQm |
| ATNA (HL7 v3 audit) | ATNA (still applies — audit message format is unchanged; ATNA also has a FHIR AuditEvent option) |
| BPPC | APPC + FHIR Consent |
| HPD | mCSD |
| XDS document sharing across communities | MHDS (Mobile Health Document Sharing) |
MHDS reframes the entire XDS affinity domain on FHIR (DocumentReference, DocumentManifest, Patient, etc.) and is the direction TEFCA is heading.
<query:AdhocQueryRequest xmlns:query="urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:xsd:query:3.0">
<query:AdhocQuery id="urn:uuid:14d4debf-8f97-4251-9a74-a90016b0af0d"> <!-- FindDocuments -->
<rim:Slot name="$XDSDocumentEntryPatientId">
<rim:ValueList><rim:Value>'MRN-123456^^^&1.2.840.114350.1.13.99999.99999&ISO'</rim:Value></rim:ValueList>
</rim:Slot>
<rim:Slot name="$XDSDocumentEntryStatus">
<rim:ValueList><rim:Value>('urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:StatusType:Approved')</rim:Value></rim:ValueList>
</rim:Slot>
<rim:Slot name="$XDSDocumentEntryClassCode">
<rim:ValueList><rim:Value>('34133-9^^2.16.840.1.113883.6.1')</rim:Value></rim:ValueList>
</rim:Slot>
</query:AdhocQuery>
</query:AdhocQueryRequest>The stored-query UUID (urn:uuid:14d4debf-...) is fixed by IHE — always look these up from the ITI TF.
<AuditMessage>
<EventIdentification EventActionCode="R" EventDateTime="2026-03-01T15:01:22Z" EventOutcomeIndicator="0">
<EventID code="110107" displayName="Import" codeSystemName="DCM"/>
<EventTypeCode code="ITI-43" displayName="Retrieve Document Set" codeSystemName="IHE Transactions"/>
</EventIdentification>
<ActiveParticipant UserID="https://consumer.example.org" AlternativeUserID="consumer-aetitle" UserIsRequestor="true" NetworkAccessPointID="10.0.0.10"/>
<ActiveParticipant UserID="https://repository.example.org" UserIsRequestor="false"/>
<ParticipantObjectIdentification ParticipantObjectID="MRN-123456" ParticipantObjectTypeCode="1" ParticipantObjectTypeCodeRole="1"/>
<ParticipantObjectIdentification ParticipantObjectID="urn:uuid:e2a1b3c4-..." ParticipantObjectTypeCode="2" ParticipantObjectTypeCodeRole="3"/>
</AuditMessage>| Use case | Recommended profiles |
|---|---|
| Push a referral packet to one known provider | XDR (or MHD push) + ATNA + CT |
| Publish a discharge summary to a regional HIE | XDS.b + ATNA + CT + BPPC + PIX |
| Search across multiple HIE communities | XCA + XCPD + XUA |
| Mobile app retrieves patient's CCDs | MHD + IUA |
| Share imaging studies cross-enterprise | XDS-I.b + XCA-I + ATNA |
| Cross-reference MRNs between hospital and HIE | PIX (v2) or PIXm |
| Demographic search for known patient | PDQ or PDQm |
| Fine-grained consent enforcement | APPC + Consent resource |
| Bidirectional event subscription | DSUB or FHIR Subscription |
homeCommunityId between Registry and Repository → "document not found" on retrieve.findDocuments without confidentialityCode filter, accidentally returning restricted documents.homeCommunityId rolled into config copy/paste between environments → cross-talk in production.~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.