NM Image Cardiac Option FT Evaluation

Proposal

NMI with Cardiac Option has been nominated for advancement to Final Text. (Advocate: Steve Nichols) Per the Final Text Process, Items in blue text below warrant Committee discussion.

Technical Committee Checklist

• Are all significant CPs against the profile "closed"

• Yes. All NMI CPs identified and addressed. See CP Tracking Spreadsheet

• CP-RAD-110
• CP-RAD-111
• CP-RAD-119

• Are all significant CPs against the underlying standards "closed"?

• No CPs indicated in trial implementation

• Have all significant comments been CP'd or rejected?

• TBD

• Have all open issues listed in the Supplement been closed?

• One open issue regarding W/L. See open items in the TI

Options include

a. Store W/L in DICOM header

b. Store in presentation state

c. Leave W/L up to the Display

d. Allowing option (c) for now, and add (b) as a named option (either now or at a later point)

Note 1: TI currently includes (a)

• Have all significant issues at Connectathon been dealt with?

• Need to check with Lynn

• Has the Connectathon Project Manager been queried and significant issues addressed?

• Need to check with Lynn

Technical Committee Consensus

• TBD

Planning Committee Checklist

• Has the profile been through a Connectathon in at least two regions?

• Note: NMI has been tested in Europe and North America.

• 2012 NA 1 Image Display
• 2012 EU 1 Image Display
• 2010 EU 1 Image Display

• Has the profile been successfully tested with all actors at least at one Connectathon?

• No, see above

• Have different implementations of each actor in the profile been tested?

• No, all testing was with the same product

• Have all the options been tested successfully at at least one Connectathon?

• NA (this is an option)

• Are there IHE-provided software testing tools to address all aspects of the profile?

• EVS DICOM validators

• Have the standards underlying the profile been implemented? In similar use cases? In healthcare? In general IT?

• Yes, however, in 2009, ACC released "Key Data Elements and Definitionsfor Cardiac Imaging". This should be discussed within the Technical Committee.

• (Do you have concrete reason to believe that this works robustly in the Real World) / (Are any products available for purchase that implement the profile?)

• Yes, 8 products in IHE Product Registry, (all Philips). AGFA and GE Healthcare products claim the NMI Cardiac Option that are not in the IHE Product Registry.

• Have all issues that may have been raised about the profile been resolved?

• Need to close on open issue regarding W/L

• Has there been sufficient interest in the profile to generate a one-page overview of the profile

• Yes, see Nuclear Medicine Image