The Echocardiography Workflow (ECHO) integration profile is part of the IHE Cardiology Technical Framework.

This profile describes the workflow associated with digital echocardiography, specifically that of transthoracic echo (TTE), transesophageal echo (TEE), and stress echo. As does the Cardiac Cath Workflow Integration Profile, this profile deals with patient identifiers, orders, scheduling, status reporting, multi-stage exams (especially stress echo),and data storage. This profile also specifically addresses the issues of acquisition modality devices that are only intermittently connected to the network, such as portable echo machines, and addresses echo-specific data requirements.

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) are used in cardiac catheterization procedures, and are supported as modalities in the Cath Workflow profile, not in this profile.

Source: IHE Cardiology Technical Framework rev 2.1.