IHE Domain Coordination Committee 2010-03-16 Teleconference Minutes

Attendees

• Chris Carr (RSNA)
• Joan McMillen (RSNA)
• Nichole Drye-Mayo (RSNA)
• Bruce Curran (RO)
• Jason Colquitt (QRPH)
• John Rhoades (PCD Tech)
• Karen Witting (ITI Tech)
• Michael McCoy (PCC Plan)
• Mike Nusbaum (ITI Plan)
• Rick Butler (EC TC)
• Rob Horn (ITI Tech)
• Sondra Renly (Lab TC)
• Steve Merritt (PCD PC)
• Todd Cooper (PCD TC)
• Tom Dolan (IHE-C)
• Tone Southerland (PCC Tech)

Minutes

General Committee Business

1. Roll Call see Roster

2. Approval of Minutes

• 2010-01-13
• 2010-01-19
• 2010-02-16

• Approved unanimously

3. Schedule Future Agenda Topics for future meetings

4. Review Action Items List

Domain Announcements

• RAD - Opening Public Comment
  • Chest X-Ray CAD Display (CXCAD) - Specifies how DICOM Chest CAD evidence objects are applied to images for display. Follows similar material in Mammo profile.
  • Deadline: 2010-04-01 (Meeting starts April 6)
  • no specific review requested

• LAB - Call for Profile Proposals

• Plan to schedule profile development meeting this summer (in Chicago)

• RO - Issuing RFP for Test Tools

• Dose Compositing and Treatment Delivery Workflow Profiles

• PCC - Perinatal Workflow Profile Published for Public Comment

• Comments due April 15

• QRPH - meeting April 25 to review Diabetes White Paper; will issue for public comment

• Domain Milestone Dates

Domain Coordination Issues

• ITI Strategic Planning Process

• Effort to rationalize solicitation of profiles to support needs of other domains

• Initial goal: adopt at least one profile proposal to support another domain

• Establish liaison relationships with other domains and national deployment committees
• Developing educational presentation for other committees
• ITI Liaisons will communicate with domains by early April
• Meeting next week to complete designation of liaisons
• Communication will focus on how ITI's long-range planning can meet broader domain and deployment needs

Documentation, Websites and Public Information

• Namespace Process

• Rob Horn presented information on ISO RFC 2434 process for assigning consistent values and interpretations
• RFC 3406 defines structure of URNs; eg ISBN numbers
• A namespace domain provides unique identifiers within defined domain
• Need to obtain namespace from Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Internet Agency for Number Assignment (IANA)

• Define the process by which numbers will be assigned and tracked
• Define what kinds of resources will be identified
• Define what kinds of services will be supported

• IHE naming model: committee name/year of assignment/document name
• DCC to take committee responsibility for oversight of process
• Designate a Librarian (and backup) to manage

• Update data dictionary at time of Trial Implementation?

• Need a spreadsheet with four columns

• urn name
• description, including citation
• status

• Process for reporting to DCC

• Authors responsible for assigning terminal string

• <Action Item>: Rob Horn will write up description of resources and services
• <Action Item>: Chris Carr will work with sponsors to name librarian and back up
• <Action Item>: Chris Carr will develop spreadsheet and a few paragraphs of text describing process for curating URNs
• <Action Item>: Rob and Chris to present proposed materials to DCC on April 13

• Review Draft Domain Board Reports

• Cardiology

• Ready for presentation to the IHE Board;
• <Action Item>: Chris Carr will add to April Board agenda

• Patent Disclaimer Language for Supplements and Technical Frameworks

• <Action Item>: Chris Carr to add link to Patent Disclosure form to www.ihe.net/governance
• Make clear on Patent Disclosure Process page that duty to disclose applies only to patents held by company
• Fix links on Announcement Slides; create redirect at www.ihe.net/patent

Next Meeting

• March 30, 9:00am - 10:30am
• Agenda Items:

• Review and reconciliation of supplement templates including patent disclaimers

Domain Coordination Committee