Radiology Strategic Planning

Categories

The following table organizes the current IHE Radiology profiles into several broad categories.

This was originally done in 2003 to get a sense of balance between the different types of needs being addressed. It is probably worth reviewing the categories. For example Image Sharing has become a significant theme in the Infrastructure area.

A similar set of categories was proposed in 2010 to allow different IHE Domains to map out their profiles and compare and contrast their profile portfolio with similar domains (e.g. the group of departmental domains like Radiology, Cardiology, Laboratory, Eyecare, Pathology, Dental, Endoscopy, Radiation Oncology; or the group of more document oriented domains like Patient Care Coordination, and QRPH), looking for gaps or areas of overlap/common interest.

Workflow

Profiles about facilitating or managing workflows in the radiology department. This includes things like worklists, progress/completion reporting, exception handling and accessing task related information.

[SWF] Scheduled Workflow
[PIR] Patient Information Reconciliation
[PPWF] Post-Processing Workflow
[RWF] Reporting Workflow
[IRWF] Import Reconciliation Workflow
[MAWF] Mammography Acquisition Workflow

Content

Profiles about the creation, storage, management, retrieval and general use of a particular type of content object (but not the workflow that creates it).

Presentation

Profiles about proper presentation of radiology content.

[KIN] Key Image Note
[CPI] Consistent Presentation of Images
[PGP] Presentation of Grouped Procedures
[FUS] Image Fusion
[BIR] Basic Image Review
[CXCAD] Chest X-Ray CAD Display

Image Sharing

Profiles about distributing and managing radiology data using media, networks, etc.

[PDI] Portable Data for Imaging
[XDS-I.b] Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging.b
[XCA-I] Cross-Community Access for Imaging
[IOCM] Image Object Change Management
[TCE] Teaching File and Clinical Trial Export
[ARI] Access to Radiology Information

Infrastructure

Profiles about administrative tasks.

[ATNA] Audit Trail and Node Authentication - Radiology Option
[CHG] Charge Posting

Capabilities

The IHE IT Infrastructure (ITI) domain has identified the following areas of expertise and weaknesses.

Category	Areas of expertise	Areas of weakness
Technology	Security, Privacy, XDS, SOAP, Directories, Workflow, Transports, Network, Media, email, Metadata, Web Wervices	HL7 v2 & v3 messaging
Standards Development Organizations	W3C, OASIS, HL7	DICOM, ISO
Geographic Regions	North America, Europe	Asia, South America