Cardiology Technical Committee

NOTICE

At the IHE-C Planning Committee meeting of March 30th in Chicago it was confired that the ACC: - were formally withdrawing from sole domain sponsorship support - had not secured alternative funding from the wider CV professional societies

Under the terms of IHE Governance; without vendor-independent sponsorship the IHE-cardiology domain is now in a dormant state effective April 1 2008.

FAQ

Q1 - what does this mean for IHE in Cardiology?

A1 - It means that work on all new profiles is stopped. This includes the current proposals for development in 2007-2008 (see below). The domain membership can, in principle, engage in maintenance work on existing (trial implementation, and aproved) profiles. Work is ongoing to see what the level of interest in this is and how the meeting infrastructure to support this can be organized.

Customers will (and should) still demand existing IHE-profiles in their RFPs and vendors will continue to work on bring these to market and support them.

Q2 - Is this decision final?

A2 - Things can always change. Former Members of the IHE-Cardiology Planning and Technical Comittees are continuing to pursue support alternatives in a private capacity. If we are successful in securing IHE-Approved Domain Sponsorship then we are comitted to reinstating the Domain and continuing to work on Interoperability within Cardiology via the IHE.

Q3 - In the absence of the IHE-cardiology Domain how will Interoperability in cardiology proceed?

A3 - Interoperability in cardiology is and should proceed using the existing standards encouraged by IHE: - the existing IHE-Cardiology Profiles - DICOM and HL7

Also many existing and new profiles from the other IHE Domains (particularly Radiology and ITI) are appropriate for cardiology, and these are continuing to be developed and supported.

Q4 - how will I know if things change?

A4 - Check back on this wiki (which is being kindly hosted by the IHE-Radiology domain).

Q5 - What can I do to help?

A5 - Please use your influence to inform your professional bodies of the situation and encourage them to provide support for IHE-cardiology. Please contact any of the former IHE-cardiology co-chairs with ideas or opportunities to get the domain reinstated.

Original 2007-2008 plan - SUSPENDED !

The following profiles are being developed in 2007-2008. (See Meeting List below).

Technical Committee Due-dates for Profile Development

This table shows the due dates for deliverables. Profile authors will deliver these items to the Cardiology Technical Cmte for review on the dates identified, then the items will be discussed during following week's Monday Webex (schedule below).

Date	ECG Workflow	IDCO	Img-Enabled Office	TF Maintenance
2007.03.10	Use Cases documented	-	Define actors/transactions	-
2008.03.17	-	-	Scope/priority documented;Monday review of actors/transactions	-
2008.03.24	Scope and standards determined	-	-	-
2008.03.31	-	Modification of IDCO for new standards work	potentially review of IEO content on Monday tconn	-
2008.04.07	Profile 1st draft ready	Review IDCO update on Monday tconn	-	-
2008.04.14	Review of 1st draft on Monday tconn	-	Profile 1st draft ready	-
2008.04.21	-	-	Review of 1st draft on Monday tconn	-
2008.04.28	Profile 2nd draft ready	-	-	-
2008.05.05	Review of 2nd draft on Monday tconn	-	Profile 2nd draft ready	-
2008.05.12	-	-	Review of 2nd draft on Monday tconn	-
2008.05.19	-	-	-	-
2008.05.26	Prepare profile for F2F	Prepare profile for F2F	Prepare profile for F2F	-
2008.06.04-05	TC F2F for Pub Comment	TC F2F for Pub Comment	TC F2F for Pub Comment	-
2008.06.09	-	-	-	TC Change Proposal Review
2008.06.09	-	-	-	CPs Public Ballot Ready to be posted
2008.07.08-09	Reconcile Pub Comment	Reconcile Pub Comment	Reconcile Pub Comment	Review Public Comments on CP ballot

Current Meetings

Some key meetings are shown here for convenience. See the IHE Calendar for the official listing of all T-Cons and meetings.

Meeting notifications and reminders are sent to the Committee Mailing list. T-Cons may be added or re-scheduled periodically.

Dates and Times are Central Time (Chicago UTC-0600)

Date	Time	Location	Topic	Agenda	Minutes
2007.12.17	1000-1100	T-Con	Discussion of 2007-2008 Profiles	[1]	-
2008.01.14	1000-1100	T-Con	Walk through EP Measurement Sup 129	-	-
2008.03.04 - 05	All Day	Milwaukee - Mortara Instrument	Edit of profiles for Public Comments for 2007-2008 Profile Development	-	-
2008.03.17	1000-1200	Webex	Profile Discussion: IEO review of actors and transactions	-	-
2008.03.31	1000-1200	Webex	Planning Cmte report; potentially Img Enabled Office topic	-	-
2008.04.07	1000-1200	Webex	Profile Discussion: IDCO review	-	-
2008.04.14	1000-1200	Webex	Profile Discussion: ECG Workflow - review 1	-	-
2008.04.21	1000-1200	Webex	Profile Discussion: Img Enabled Office - review 1	-	-
2008.04.28	1000-1200	Webex	Profile Discussion: topic TBD based on profile needs	-	-
2008.05.05	1000-1200	Webex	Profile Discussion: ECG Workflow - review 2	-	-
2008.05.12	1000-1200	Webex	Profile Discussion: Img Enabled Office - review 2	-	-
2008.05.19	1000-1200	Webex	Profile Discussion: topic TBD based on profile needs	-	-
2008.06.04-05	All day	Face-to-face MKE	TC Face-to-face: Finalize supplements for Public Comment	-	-
2008.07.08-09	All Day	Webex	Finalization of 2008-2009 Profiles for Trial Implementation; reconcile public comments	-	-

Roster

Representatives with Voting Privileges (shown in the table below as Voting = Yes) may vote and count towards quorum.

Voting Privileges are based on the Roster Role and attendance of the Member Organization for this committee.

Attendance is recorded for the last three meetings. + Present, - Absent, p Proxy (Report errors to the Secretary and/or Cochairs)

NOTE: New Member Organizations are granted Voting Privileges at the start of their second consecutive meeting.

IHE Member Organizations	Representative Name	Role	Voting	Mar 4-5	Mar 17	Mar 31	Apr 07
				'08	'08	'08	'08
Siemens	Micha Coleman	Co-chair	Yes	+	+
Philips	Tom Dolan	Co-chair	Yes	+	-
ACC (Sponsor)	Rick Hays/Dan Romans	Secretary		-	+
Cardiac Science	Rich Fronek	Primary	Yes	+	-
Cardiac Science	Brian Cole	Alternate		+	+
Cardiac Science	Chris Barnett	Alternate		+	+
Cardiac Science	Glen Rudie	Alternate		+	+
Emageon	Keith Klassy	Primary	Yes	+	+
GE	Harry Solomon	Primary	Yes	+	+
GE	Raj Narayanaswamy	Alternate		+	-
GE	Brian Young	Alternate		+	-
Mortara	Barry Brown	Primary	Yes	+	+
Mortara	Media:Mortara_turkey.jpg	Mascot		+	NA
Philips	Bijoy Sundersingh	Alternate		+	+
Philips	Glenn Guillemette	Alternate		-	+
Toshiba	Kevin O'Donnell	Primary		-	-
Biotronik	Sunil Unadkat	Primary		-	-
Biotronik	Yarisa Jaroch	Alternate		-	-
Pending Organization Membership in IHE
Boston Scientific	Nick Steblay	Primary		+	-
Mallinckrodt Inst. of Rad.	Lynn Felhofer	Liaison		+	+
Medtronic	Tom Schultz	Primary		+	-
NextGen	Robert Barker (for Deb Dore)			+	-
Attendance / Quorum			3	6 / 3	/	/	/

If your organization is an IHE Member and you would like to be added to this roster, please provide the name of your voting representative (and optionally, alternates) to the Committee Secretary.

If your status needs to be adjusted, please contact the Committee Secretary and or a Cochair.

See Also

The Cardiology Domain Page

The Main Committees Page

IHE Mailing Lists

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