Rad Plan Minutes 2008-10-22

Attendees

• Chris Lindop (Co-chair) - GE
• Kevin O'Donnell (Co-chair) - Toshiba
• David Clunie, MD - RadPharm
• Dick Donker - Philips
• Dave Heaney - McKesson
• Mike Henderson - Eastern Informatics
• Cor Loef - Philips
• John Paganini - Guardian
• Paul Seifert - Agfa
• Niki Wirsz, PhD - Siemens
• Chris Carr - RSNA
• Nichole Drye-Mayo - RSNA

Minutes

Final Selection of 2008-09 Work Items

• Attendance & Review of Voting Privileges

• Reviewed Radiology Planning Committee Roster: Quorum attained; McKesson and Eastern Informatics take part in current meeting as non-voting participants

• Discussion of voting procedure

• Assemble slates of proposals reflecting work budget (roughly) and vote on slates

• Overview of Proposal Evaluations (See Table)

• General understanding of proposals within committee is good; focus on advocacy, reasons for priority

• XDS-I Using XDS.b technology

• Aligns radiology with direction of ITI committees and implementation projects
• Strong desire in Radiology Informatics Committee to promote this as future direction of Image Sharing

• Image Management Enhancements

• Provides workflow functions (delete, replace, etc.) in distributed environments
• Addresses critical needs of current installations in Multi-PACS environments
• Question about whether underlying standards are in place to efficiently address the issue

• Brief Review of Radiology Image Sharing Roadmap

• Review of Proposal Evaluations (5 min each)
• Advocacy and Discussion

• Voting