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
- Genady Knizhnik - Agfa
- 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
- Basic Image Review
- Addresses display requirements, particularly for consumption by referring physicians
- Urgency of need has been expressed by medical societies in US
- Model for setting display requirements is established in Nuc Med and Mammo display profiles
- PDI Extensions
- Addresses pressing, current need in radiology
- Activity by DRG and others in compression raises political stakes of addressing the issue now
- 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; concern about misusing standards
- Possible to address current implementation requirements through other authorities (eg, Canada Health Infoway)
- Brief Review of Radiology Image Sharing Roadmap
- Review of Proposal Evaluations (5 min each)
- Advocacy and Discussion
- Voting