Rad Plan Minutes 2010-09-20

Attendees

• Chris Carr - RSNA
• Ellie Avraham - Philips
• David Clunie - CoreLab
• David Heaney - McKesson
• Kinson Ho - Agfa
• Chuck Kahn - RSNA
• Cezary Klimczak
• Chris Lindop - GE
• Kevin O'Donnell - Toshiba
• Daniel Rubin - RSNA
• Jerold Wallis - SNM

Minutes

Evaluate Brief Profile Proposals. Detailed questions from discussion have been added to the page linked here

• Management of Radiology Report Templates - Brief Proposal

• Dr. Kahn presented summary of proposal
• RSNA Reporting Committee has begun developing structured reports in xml language called relax ng
• Goal of profile proposal is to standardize methods of accessing and using templates (rather than defining the content/structure of templates)
• Development would need to be coordinated with other domains: IT Infrastructure and Patient Care Coordination, also Cardiology, Pathology, Cardiology
• Relationship of xml reports to DICOM SR templates needs to be evaluated by Tech Cmte

• Clinical Trial Annotation Workflow

• Need to investigate whether it is possible to expand to address clinical use cases
• Currently the clinical trials use case has the greatest demand for structured data with quantitation
• Goal is to gather the data in the course of clinical care
• Currently most clinical trials are done on specialty workstations rather than PACS workstations

• Complete the work on Imaging Object Change Management

• Kinson Ho presented summary of proposal
• Based on published white paper; Kinson estimates that 70% of the work on the profile is completed
• Goal is to specify methods of managing changes to image objects in distributed environment
• White paper contains range of use cases; some might be excluded if they are not likely to be addressed successfully
• Gap in DICOM needs to be addressed in order to complete proposal; DICOM is awaiting input from white paper to conclude this work item
• ebXML and HL7 MDM are other potential standards mechanisms that could be used to address the use cases

• Reporting Workflow Revision - Brief Proposal

• Proposal to refresh and possibly merge existing Post-processing and Reporting workflow profiles
• Current profile specifies SINR; update would likely loosen this linkage
• Consider changing from DICOM Modality Work List to UPS

• Cross-Community Access - Images (XCA-I)

• Portable Hosted Applications in Radiology

• SWF-Image Exchange option

• Main use case is communication (eg, referrals) with care providers outside of radiology
• Communication of results, procedure plans, etc. should be called out as separate use cases

• Rad TF Maintenance 2010-11

• Kevin O'Donnell to fill in with details of work to be done

• Technical Committee will perform technical feasibility and work estimate

• Technical Committee Meetings: Oct. 6, 10:00-11:30 CT; Oct. 22

• Next Step: Planning Committee to hold additional teleconference this Thursday, Sept. 23, 10:30-11:00 am CT to make selection of Brief Proposals for evaluation by Technical Committee

Radiology Planning Committee