Rad Plan Minutes 2010-10-27
Attendees
- Alex Tzannes, Aware
- David Mendelson, MD
- Charles Kahn, MD
- Curtis Langlotz, MD
- Chris Lindop
- Kinson Ho, Agfa
- James Cialdea, Aware
- Lynn Felhofer, MIR
- Niki Wirsz, Siemens
- Jonathon Dreyer, Nuance
- Chris Click, Nuance
- Kevin O'Donnell, Toshiba
- Ron Cowan, Merge
- Cor Loef, Philips
- Daniel Rubin, MD
- Chris Carr
- Nichole Drye-Mayo
Minutes
- Reviewed profiles in preparation for selecting package of work items for development in 2011
- Allows exchange of templates in vendor-independent format, encouraging adoption of structured templates to generate higher quality, more uniform reports
- Would support RSNA Reporting Committee and RadLex work in defining templates and controlled vocabulary for radiology reporting
- Dr. Langlotz willing to lead editorial team and will bring additional resources to work
- Work is likely to be significant for all the diagnostic specialties; radiology will lead but also communicate with cardiology, eye care, lab, etc.
- Uses DICOM standards to manage image sets across sites, including synchronization and acknowledgments, delete and replace functions
- Addresses problems encountered in areas where distributed PACS has been deployed, notably in Canadian Health System
- Agfa willing to lead team; will get help from DICOM experts, including Fred Behlen
- Uses emerging DICOM UPS worklist standard to streamline reporting and potentially post-processing
- Depends on emering DICOM standard and SIIM TRIP work outcomes