Delta Proposal Template

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This Delta Proposal Template is for expanding copy of a Brief Proposal into a Detailed Proposal. This template and the Detailed Proposal Template should be updated in sync.

• Paste this text into a copy of your Brief Proposal
• Move the Summary section here to the end of Section 1 in your Brief Proposal
• Expand details in the Use Case Section of your Brief Proposal
• Distribute material in the Discussion Section of your Brief Proposal into the other bottom sections (5,6,7,8) here.

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Summary

<Summarize in a few lines the existing problem . E.g. "It is difficult to monitor radiation dose for individual patients and almost impossible to assemble and compare such statistics for a site or a population.">

<Demonstrate in a line or two that the key integration features are available in existing standards. E.g. "DICOM has an SR format for radiation dose events and a protocol for exchanging them.">

<Summarize in a few lines how the problem could be solved. E.g. "A Radiation Dose profile could require compliant radiating devices to produce such reports and could define transactions to actors that collect, analyze and present such information.">

<Summarize in a line or two market interest & available resources. E.g. "Euratom and ACR have published guidelines requiring/encouraging dose tracking. Individuals from SFR are willing to participate in Profile development.">

<Summarize in a line or two why IHE would be a good venue to solve the problem. E.g. "The main challenges are dealing with the chicken-and-egg problem and avoiding inconsistent implementations.">

5. Technical Approach

<This section describes the technical scope of the work and the proposed approach to solve the problems in the Use Cases. The Technical Committee will be responsible for the full design and may choose to take a different approach, but a sample design is a good indication of feasibility. The Technical Committee may revise/expand this section when doing the effort estimation.>

<If any context or "big picture" is needed to understand the transaction, actor and profile discussion below, that can be put here>

<If a phased approach would make sense indicate some logical phases. This may be because standards are evolving, because the problem is too big to solve at once, or because there are unknowns that won’t be resolved soon.>

<The material below also serves as the breakdown of tasks that the technical committee will use to estimate the effort required to design, review and implement the profile. It helps a lot if it is reasonably complete/realistic.>

<READ PROPOSER HOMEWORK IN Proposal Effort Evaluation FOR GUIDANCE ON POPULATING THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS >

Actors

• (NEW) <List possible new actors>
• <List existing actors that may be given requirements in the Profile.>

Transactions

• (NEW) <List possible new transactions (indicating what standards would likely be used for each. Transaction diagrams are very helpful here. Feel free to go into as much detail as seems useful.>
• <List existing transactions that may be used and which might need modification/extension.>

Profile

• <Describe the main new profile chunks that will need to be written.>
• <List existing profiles that may need to be modified.>

Decisions/Topics/Uncertainties

• <List key decisions that will need to be made, open issues, design problems, topics to discuss, and other potential areas of uncertainty>
• <Credibility point: A proposal for a profile with any degree of novelty should have items listed here. If there is nothing here, it is usually a sign that the proposal analysis and discussion has been incomplete.>

6. Support & Resources

<List groups that have expressed support for the proposal and resources that would be available to accomplish the tasks listed above.>

<Identify anyone who as indicated an interest in implementing/prototyping the Profile if it is published this cycle.>

7. Risks

<List real-world practical or political risks that could impede successfully fielding the profile.>

<Technical risks should be noted above under Uncertainties.>

8. Tech Cmte Evaluation

<The technical committee will use this area to record details of the effort estimation, etc.>

Effort Evaluation (as a % of Tech Cmte Bandwidth):

• xx% for MUE
• yy% for MUE + optional

Editor:

TBA

SME/Champion:

TBA <typically with a technical editor, the Subject Matter Expert will bring clinical expertise; in the (unusual) case of a clinical editor, the SME will bring technical expertise>

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