The Eye Care Workflow Integration Profile establishes the continuity and integrity of basic patient and procedure data in the context of an eye clinic and/or an integrated hospital workflow scenario. This profile deals specifically with consistent handling of patient identifiers and demographic data. It also specifies the scheduling and coordination of procedure data to a wide variety of diagnostic imaging and testing equipment, and its reliable storage in an image management system from where it is available to support subsequent workflow steps, such as reporting. It also provides the ability for the acquisition devices to identify the actual procedure(s) that were performed. This enables further workflow steps such as automated billing.