PaLM Conf Minutes 2019-Jan-09

Minutes

IHE PaLM Board Report update – Riki

• Riki presented the report to DCC. The main comment was a request to involve more vendors.
• Riki will present the report to the IHE Board on January 10, 2019. Here is the link to the final report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1upFPu-AqM0fiQwXuoDcSNnkQAW2N9q9eqka2Z1JxPeo/edit?usp=sharing

Discussion of May F2F meeting in Tokyo – Francois/Megumi

• The F2F meeting will be May 27-29, 2019 in Tokyo at the usual venue JAHIS HQ.
• At least one full day of the meeting will be devoted to discussion of the digital pathology profile.
• Mikael and Mary will poll the DICOM WG 26 and PaLM members respectively to gauge anticipated participation either in person or remotely.

LCC update – Riki/Jim

• Bold textThe LCC was published for comment on December 31, 2018.
• Comment period ends Feb 8, 2019
• Jim Harrison wrote an introduction to the LCC that can be edited for use to both pathologists and non-pathologists.
• The profile publication information was distributed to the API listserv.
• Francois will edit the summary and send to the French pathologist association; Mary will send it to Nancy Cornish at the CDC; Riki will post it to HL7 O&O work group.
• Will share on the Google Groups to raise interest of pathologists and obtain more comments.

Possible meeting with DICOM WG 26 at the European Congress on Digital Pathology

• We have been invited to attend a joint meeting with DICOM WG 26 at the ECDP on April 10 in Warwick UK to continue work on the digital pathology profile.
• Is there enough interest in PaLM for either remote or physical participation at the meeting?
• Raj, Nick could attend in person; vendor participation is required. Francois will check to see if he can skip the part of the SNOMED business meeting conflicting with this date. Some members agreed to participate remotely.
• Mikael will poll the vendors to see how many can participate.
• Mary to send an email to Norman regarding our recruitment of vendors to the meeting.
• There is a possibility to meet with DICOM WG26 at other meetings such as USCAP or ECDP.

SET update – Allesandro

• SET order structure has been updated for profile messages based on comments from the PaLM December call.
• There will be a discussion on it at the HL7 O&O next week. Riki will send a message to the group on when the discussion will occur – it is scheduled for Monday 9 – 10:30 AM CT

Digital Pathology profile update – Raj

• Query and Broadcast mode are both needed
• Discussion on whether LAB-82 needs to convey OBX segments or not. The answer is YES, but we have to further specify the content of the RESULT segment group: Metadata of the images, QA data? We’ll poll the scanner vendors to specify this content.