DICOM WG10: Strategic Advisory Committee

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DICOM WG10Strategic Advisory Committee

• Report to DSC meeting
• May 7, 2002, Seoul

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Meetings since last report

• Joint meeting with ISO/TC215 WG2
• January 12 2002
• Process for DICOM becoming an ISO standard
• DICOM Strategic Direction for Image Distribution
• prepared a white paperDICOM Strategic
  Direction for Image DistributionJanuary 4, 2002
• prepared a presentation on this topic

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• The DICOM Strategic Advisory Committee believes
  that the combination of web-based protocols,
  consumer image file-formats, plug-ins and applets
  form an excellent low-cost platform for
  tightly-coupled client-server medical record
  applications in which the server has access to
  image data and information in its original DICOM
  format.

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• All the patient's context information is
  available in the EPR, and therefor there's no
  need to develop standards for Meta data in
  consumer image file formats the information is
  available and can easily be conveyed be means of
  XML documents which provide the context for the
  images.

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• End-users have also sophisticated requirements in
  addition to having a simple view of the image,
  and therefore universal access to the original
  acquired image data is required.

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• Because of the privacy rules which have to be
  enforced the access to the patient's image data
  will be routed via the electronic patient record.
  Therefore, a unique reference is needed from the
  electronic patient record to the original image
  data to facilitate this access. XML will play a
  significant role in the EPR, and this leads to
  the requirement to have this unique reference to
  original image data available in XML documents.

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• It's DICOM WG10 desire to work with ISO/TC
• 215/WG2 to materialize the outlined strategy.
• Conclusion of the meeting
• Continue with efforts to become an ISO standard
• DICOM will continue with URL topic, and prepare a
  joint DICOM-ISO TC215 workitem
• We will have yearly joint meetings with ISO TC
  215 WG2

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• WG10 meeting May 6, 2002, Seoul.
• DICOM Strategic Document
• Input process seems to work, update process
  works, need to prepare a version October to be
  submitted for approval to DSC
• Relation to other SDOs and related groups
• ISO/TC215, ANSI X12N, ASTM E07.11, HL7, IHEJPEG
  group needs to be added
• Status of translations of DICOM codes

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• WG10 meeting May 6, 2002, Seoul.
• Process for the development of codes
• Need for definitions, also the SNOMED codes
• advice fold ad-hoc group on codes into WG8
• ask WG8 to write a procedure for the development
  of codes in DICOM
• ask WG8 to write a clarification of the standard
  on how to use codes

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• WG10 meeting May 6, 2002, Seoul.
• Web based reference to DICOMs permanent objects
  ( URL)
• Simple URL
• Method for Query, partial document abstractiongt
  not in workitem
• Want to retrieve the original object, and also
  have the option to specify a transfer syntax.
• And, want to retrieve even a presentation of the
  object, e.g. JPEG, CDA level
• We will prepare two workitems, one for broad
  permanent document reference, one for DICOM
  objects

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• WG10 meeting May 6, 2002, Seoul.
• Web based reference to DICOMs permanent objects
  ( URL)
• workitems will be prepared in the June meeting,
  and submitted for approval by the DSC
• submitted to ISO to be approved in the August
  meeting of ISO TC 215
• will be a test case for a formal working together
  between DICOM and ISO on the creation of a
  supplement to the DICOM standard, and approved as
  ISO standard.

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• WG10 meeting May 6, 2002, Seoul.
• CDA level 3
• there a concerns that the CDA level 3 will not
  materialize as quickly as we would like
• within DICOM we dont see alternatives to
  continue with our efforts in WG20 to harmonize
  DICOM SR with CDA level 3
• a new outlet for the DICOM SR will be via the
  URL, converted to and presented as CDA level 1 or
  2.

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• WG10 meeting May 6, 2002, Seoul.
• Conformance Statement in XML,DICOM standard in
  XML
• WG6 has been asked to provide a status update on
  the workitem to express conformance statements in
  XML
• there is a renewed interest to write the DICOM
  standard in XML. The issues and impact will be
  analyzed, and in the June meeting we will
  formulate an advice.

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Strategic process

• We need to have a closer look at our main topics
• Image distribution in the enterprise
• Workflow management
• Structured reporting objects and templates
• New imaging technology
• Will be on the agenda for the June meeting