Rad Plan Minutes 2008-10-22
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Attendees
- Chris Lindop (Co-chair) - GE
- Kevin O'Donnell (Co-chair) - Toshiba
- David Clunie, MD - RadPharm
- Dick Donker - Philips
- Dave Heaney - McKesson
- Mike Henderson - Eastern Informatics
- Genady Knizhnik - Agfa
- Cor Loef - Philips
- John Paganini - Guardian
- Paul Seifert - Agfa
- Niki Wirsz, PhD - Siemens
- Chris Carr - RSNA
- Nichole Drye-Mayo - RSNA
Minutes
Final Selection of 2008-09 Work Items
Attendance and Review of Voting Privileges
- Reviewed Radiology Planning Committee Roster: Quorum attained; McKesson and Eastern Informatics take part in current meeting as non-voting participants
Discussion of Voting Procedure
- Assemble slates of proposals reflecting work budget (roughly) and vote on slates
- Overview of Proposal Evaluations (See Table)
- General understanding of proposals within committee is good; discussion focused on advocacy, reasons for priority
- A. Basic Image Review
- Addresses display requirements, particularly for consumption by referring physicians
- Urgency of need has been expressed by medical societies in US
- Model for setting display requirements is established in Nuc Med and Mammo display profiles
- B. PDI Extensions
- Addresses pressing, current need in radiology
- Activity by DRG and others in compression raises political stakes of addressing the issue now
- C. XDS-I Using XDS.b technology
- Aligns radiology with direction of ITI committees and implementation projects
- Strong desire in Radiology Informatics Committee to promote this as future direction of Image Sharing
- D. Image Management Enhancements
- Provides workflow functions (delete, replace, etc.) in distributed environments
- Addresses critical needs of current installations in Multi-PACS environments
- Question about whether underlying standards are in place to efficiently address the issue; concern about misusing standards
- Possible to address current implementation requirements through other authorities (eg, Canada Health Infoway)
- Raises additional use cases for working in a hybrid SWF/XDS environment
- E. Enhanced DICOM Objects
- Underlying standards are important and well established (including prior demonstrations); proposal for profile has been under consideration for 3 years
- Profile would be basis for series of clinically specific subprofiles
- Issues of working in a mixed environment would remain out of scope
- Speed of transfers in working with large data sets is one of the key clinical benefits
- Enables higher-level interoperability among specialty applications (eg, cardiac systems)
- F. Scheduled Workflow II
- Aligns SWF with PAM profile and development path of HL7 messaging
- Optional part of proposal to add Study Ready message
- Question about whether this item is feasible; suggest as DICOM work item and address when standards available
- G. Required Profile Maintenance
Voting
- Assembled voting slates for consideration:
- #1: A, B, C, E2, F1, G (145%)
- #2: A, C, E2, G (100%)
- #3: A, B, C, G (85%)
- #4: A, B, C, F1, G (120%)
- #5: A, B, C, E2, G (110%)
- #6: A, B, C, D2, F1, G (175%)
- After two-stage run-off process, Slate #5 was selected and the following profiles were chosen for development:
- Basic Image Review
- PDI Extensions
- XDS-I Using XDS.b Technology
- Enhanced DICOM Objects - MR Diffusion, CT/MR Contrast Perfusion only
Brief Review of Radiology Image Sharing Roadmap
- Deferred to Nov. 5 tcon
Next Planning Committee Tcons/Meetings:
- Nov. 5, 10-11am Regular Committee Business; 11am-12pm Review IHE Presentations for RSNA Annual Meeting
- Dec. 2, 8:30-10:30am, Radiology Planning/Technical Committee Breakfast at RSNA 2008