Cross Community Access for Imaging (XCA-I) - Brief Proposal
1. Proposed Profile: Cross Community Access for Imaging (XCA-I)
- Proposal Editor: Claudio Saccavini, University of Padova, csaccavini@rad.unipd.it
- Editor: <Name of candidate Lead Editor for the Profile, if known>
- Date: 25 August 2008
- Version: 1.0
- Domain: Radiology
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2. The Problem
The Cross Community Information Exchange is very powerful to federate different XDS Affinity Domains and the XCA profile is a solution for the Document exchange. But if we need to share also DICOM images we need an extension of this profile such as XDS-I is for XDS.
3. Key Use Case
The HeathOptimum Project (www.healthoptimum.info) will implement in the beginning of 2009 a federation of seven different affinity domain. Every domain shares for telemedicine purposes documents and radiological images. This is the community domain scenario:
4. Standards & Systems
We can start from XCA profile including the DICOM part as in the XDS-I profile.
5. Discussion
For our project it is crucial to share images in a federation of Affinity Domains. This is also the idea of Italian Government that has decided to realize a national infrastructure not based on a single affinity domain, but on federation of Community Domains. HeathOptimum Project is a good occasion to try this solution in a small environment (seven communities: six XDS affinity domains and one non XDS).