Rad Plan Minutes 2014-10-02
Participants
Fred Behlen - Laitek (RAD Plan) Michael Bohl - Radiology Group Imaging (RAD Tech) Chris Carr - RSNA (non-voting) Cezary Klimczak - Leafsprout Technologies Nichole Drye-Mayo - RSNA Lynn Felhofer - Tech Proj Mgr Kinson Ho - Agfa (RAD Plan/Tech) Thiago Julio - Colegio Brasileiro de Radiologia (RAD Plan) David Koff - Canadian Association of Radiologists (RAD Plan) Jamie Kontos - RSNA David Kwan - Cancer Care Ontario Laura Heermann Langford - Intermountain Healthcare (PCC Tech) Chris Lindop - GE (RAD Plan/Tech) Cor Loef - Connect2Empower Ben Macerola - Canada Health infoWay David Mendelson - RSNA (RAD Plan) Jason Nagles - HDIRS Kevin O'Donnell - Toshiba (RAD Plan/Tech) Julie Pekarek - Merge (RAD Tech) Peter Popowycz - UHN (RAD Plan) Antje Schroeder - Siemens (RAD Plan/Tech) Elliot Silver - McKesson Teri Sippel Schmidt - Karos (RAD Plan/Tech) Tone Southerland - Ready Computing (PCC Tech) Alicia Vasquez - California Medical Business Services (Radiant Imaging) (RAD Tech) Jerold Wallis - Society of Nuclear Medicine (RAD Plan) Judith Wolfman - Northwestern University (RAD Plan)
Quorum attained for both Planning and Technical Committees (See roster)
Minutes
- Voting procedure: Use Schulze method or straight blended voting
- Conduct separate call to determine methods
Image Viewing and Upload over the Web (IVUW) - Internet-Ready SWF - Proposal
- Adds flexibility for range of Web-based devices to gain access to imaging information using simple protocols (JSON/REST)
Shared Study Management (SSM) - VNA Study Management - Proposal
- Allows management (eg, post-processing, reference to reports) of shared archive copy of imaging dataset by multiple users
- Supported by Canada Health infoWay
REM for Radiopharmaceutical Imaging - Proposal
- Expands information gathering and analysis enabled by REM profile to Nuclear Medicine
Clinical Decision Support for Radiology (CDS-R) - Proposal
- Automates communication of appropriateness score as part of order, medical record, radiology report(?) and billing information; in response to CMS mandate to include score in order to receive reimbursement
- Needs to be coordinated with ACR and HL7 Clinical Decision Support group
- Availability of proposed underlying standard (HL7 FHIR--under development currently) is a risk for timing of publication and implementation of profile
- Will decide whether profile also Needs to accommodate model of using outside CDS engine, as well as incorporting
- IHE Patient Care Coordination Committee also reviewing
Remote Reporting for Imaging (TeleRadiology) - Proposal
Voting Rights
- Members receive rights by attending consecutive meetings; so could
- Oct. 17