Digital Pathology Aid for Nephrology

1. Proposed Workitem: Digital Pathology Aid for Nephrology

• Proposal Editor: Francesca Vanzo
• Editor: Francesca Vanzo, ...
• Date: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
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• Domain: Pathology and Laboratory in Medicine

2. The Problem

<Summarize the integration problem. What doesn’t work, or what needs to work.>

<Now describe the Value Statement: what is the underlying cost incurred by the problem, what is to be gained by solving it>

3. Key Use Case

<Describe a short use case scenario from the user perspective. The use case should demonstrate the integration/workflow problem.>

<Feel free to add a second use case scenario demonstrating how it “should” work. Try to indicate the people/systems, the tasks they are doing, the information they need, and hopefully where the information should come from.>

4. Standards and Systems

DICOM HL7

Profile XDS-I.b

Digital Slide Scanner

5. Discussion

<Include additional discussion or consider a few details which might be useful for the detailed proposal>

<Why IHE would be a good venue to solve the problem and what you think IHE should do to solve it.>

<What might the IHE technical approach be? Existing Actors? New Transactions? Additional Profiles?>

<What are some of the risks or open issues to be addressed?>