Radiology Proposals 2010-2011

Call for Proposals

Interested parties are invited to submit proposal pages based on the Brief Proposal Template by Aug. 31, 2010.

You are also welcome to update and resubmit proposals from last year or earlier.

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Proposals - Management of Radiology Reports

==1. Proposed Workitem: Management of Radiology Report Templates

• Proposal Editor: David S. Mendelson, Curtis Langlotz, Charles Kahn
• Editor: David S. Mendelson, Curtis Langlotz, Charles Kahn
• Date: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
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• Domain: Radiology

Problem: Report templates are currently being created with an effort to provide standardized reports and/or content. This effort is linked to a simulaneous effort to increase the adoption of the RadLex Ontology in reports. The vision is to provide a reporting environment such that the generation of reports and use of the report content for data mining and decision support, etc. are facilitated, through these 2 described efforts.

Use Cases:

-Report Template Single Download/Upload A radiologist is using a vendor-supplied reporting system in the reading room to report an exam type for which he has not yet created a satisfactory template. He browses the RSNA or other template library to find a template that would be ideal for the exam being reported. He clicks the “Download Template” button and saves the template as a file on his desktop. In the reporting software, he selects “Upload Template”, selects the file on his desktop, and the template appears in his template/macro list in the reporting software, ready for use or editing using the reporting vendor’s template editing tools.

-Report Template Bulk Download/Upload A vendor is installing a new reporting system at an institution that would like to go live with a significant portion of RSNA or other radiology template library ready for use. A radiologist from that institution browses the RSNA template library, selecting the templates he would like to be available at go live, and downloads them as a single file containing multiple templates. That file is uploaded to a particular user or group profile in the reporting system, where all of the templates are available for use by the radiologist.

-Report Template Data Migration An institution is changing speech recognition vendors, but would like to retain the templates that the radiologists have been using in the old system, which have been refined over many years of use. The informatics staff use the “Export Templates” function on the old system to create an export file containing all of the templates in the old system, organized by group and user profile. An “Import Templates” function on the new system is then used to make those same templates available in the corresponding profiles in the new reporting system.

Standards and Systems:

- RadLex - HL7 - XML, CDA - Voice/Speech recognition transcription systems / RIS /PACS /EMRs