Radiation Oncology

IHE Radiation Oncology addresses information sharing, workflow, and patient care in radiation oncology.

IHE Radiation Oncology is sponsored by the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and manages the Radiation Oncology Profiles and the Radiation Oncology Technical Framework.

Timeline : 2005-2007 Development Cycle

Timeframe	Activity	Scheduled	Location
2006
?	Informal Connectathon	?	Fairfax, VA
2007
Aug.	Formal Connectathon (NTPL-S)	Aug 27-31	Fairfax, VA
Oct.	Public Demonstration at ASTRO (NTPL-S)	Oct 28 - Nov 1	Los Angeles, CA

Timeline : 2007-2008 Development Cycle

Timeframe	Activity	Scheduled	Location
2007
Jan	Profile Suggestions Reviewed / Selected (TC)	Jan 22-25	Mountain View, CA
Apr.	Selected Profiles Development	Apr 16-18	Madison, WI
Jul.	Profile Supplements Development	Jul 26-27	Minneapolis, MN
Sep	Supplements released for Public Comment
2008
Mar.	Domain Pre-Testing (2008 Profiles)	Mar 3-7	Munich, Germany
Aug.	Test implementations at Connectathon (NTPL-S, MMR-RO)	Aug 1-8	Houston, TX
Sep.	Public Demonstration at ASTRO (NTPL-S, MMR-RO)	Sep 21-25	Boston, MA

Timeline : 2008-2009 Development Cycle

Timeframe	Activity	Scheduled	Location
2008
Aug.	Discussions on potential Use Cases (PC)	Aug 1	Houston, TX
Oct	Use Case Development and Profile Review Meeting (PC & TC)	Sep 21-25 ??	Boston, MA ?
2009
Jan.	Proposed Profile Discussion	Jan 22	Tele/Web-conference
Mar.	Proposed Profile Development	?	?
Aug.	Supplements released for Public Comment
Aug	Test implentations at Connectathon (NTPL-S, MMR-RO, TRWF)	TBD	?
?	Public Demonstration at ASTRO (NTPL-S, MMR-RO, TRWF)	TBD	?

Roadmap

The Radiation Oncology Roadmap will outline goals and plans over the next 5-10 years.

Current Activity

As of March, 2008, work was underway to develop documents for an ISO submission for IHE-RO domain by April 18, 2008. Click http://wiki.ihe.net/index.php?title=IHERO_ISO_Documentation to access the 5 draft documents and instructions for preparing them.

During the months of February and March, 2008, IHE-RO elected/appointed representatives to IHE committees. See IHERO Election of Representatives.

IHE Radiation Oncology held its first formal Connectathon (August 27-31, 2007, ASTRO HQ, Fairfax, VA) and subsequent Public Demonstration (October 28- November 1, 2007, Los Angeles, CA).

The following Supplements were released for Public Comment on August 20, 2007.

• Multimodality Registration Supplement

• Treatment Delivery Workflow

The Public Comment period ended on November 2, 2007. Comments may be submitted to: http://forums.rsna.org under the “IHE” forum. Select the “Radiation Oncology Technical Framework” sub-forum.

Use Case Selection

The process for specifying, prioritizing and selecting profiles is described here, and templates are available for a Brief_Proposal_Template and Detailed_Proposal_Template. Please use the discussion tab for each Use Case to suggest and discuss changes.

2005 Use Case

A simple treatment planning use case (NTPL-S) was selected as the first profile to implement to illustrate basic functionality for transferring data between treatment planning systems.

2006 Use Cases

• Multimodality Registration, became Multimodality Registration (MMR-RO) profile
• Dose Compositing
• Clinical Trials Submission
• Treatment Delivery Workflow, became Treatment Delivery Workflow (TRWF) profile
• Advanced Integration Objects

2007 Use Cases

1. Prescription Automation
2. Transfer of Anatomy/Aperture Data for Localization
3. User Authentication and Authorization
4. Registration Data Transfer - may already be covered in a current TRWF profile.
5. Radiotherapy Planning and Treatment Record, an "Advanced Interoperability of Treatment Planning Systems" (an extension of the NTPL-S profile, and an effort to partially achieving the requirements of the "Holy Grail" Use Case) as an integration profile to be tested in 2009.

• This Use Case is the IHERO 'Holy Grail'.
• Break into smaller pieces, such as an Anonymization Use Case for Clinical Trials.
• This Use Case spawned the creation of a Planning Committee focus group on the data requirements of a Radiotherapy Electronic Patient Record.

2008 Use Cases

1. Structure Template Creation, Import, and Export
2. Brachytherapy
3. Proton therapy
4. Bronchoscopy position data transfer
5. TBD

2009 Use Cases

Please read the Profile_Proposal_Process, edit this section of the wiki to include new pages (using the above format) and use the Brief_Proposal_Template to create new Use Cases.

Demonstrations & Presentations

Date	Location	Event	Details
2007.06.11-13	Chicago, IL	IHE North America Workshop	RT Objects Integration, Registration Profile, Workflow Profiles, 2008 Use Cases
2007.10.28-2007.11.1	Los Angeles, CA	ASTRO 2007 Annual Meeting	Public Demonstration: Basic Integration Profile

Supporters and Endorsements

IHE Radiation Oncology is supported or endorsed by the following vendors and professional organizations.

• Advanced Technology Consortium (ATC)
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
• American College of Radiology (ACR)
• Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROI)
• Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (CARO)
• Chinese Society of Radiation Oncology (CSRO)
• Egyptian Cancer Society - Radiation Oncology
• European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Japanese Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (JASTRO)
• Spanish Medical Physics Society (SEFM)
• Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA-NEMA)
• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

See Also

IHE Committees

• IHE-RO Planning Committee
• IHE-RO Technical Committee

IHE Mailing Lists

Other IHE-RO resources:

• IHE-RO Technical Committee mailing list: mailto:iherotech08@appm.org
• IHE-RO Planning Committee mailing list: mailto:iheroplan08@aapm.org
• AAPM bulletin board system: www.aapm.org/bbs/
• IHE web page: www.ihe.net
• IHE wiki: wiki.ihe.net

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