Liaison Report on ISO

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Liaison Report on ISO

• Charles Parisot
• Lawrence Tarbox
• Hidenori Shinoda
• 9/2,3/2004
• Munich

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Last ISO/TC215 meeting was held in May in
Washington, D.C.

• The last meeting was held on May 9-13.
• Charles Parisot, Lawrence Tarbox, Hidenori
  Shinoda, and Howard Clark attended the meeting.
• There was no discussion on WADO, but Nicholas
  Brown reported on the status of the document.
• Ballot voting for WADO as a DIS was closed on
  July 13th. It was successfully approved by the
  TC. Nicholas announced it would be International
  Standard in a couple of months.

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Last Meeting to be continued

• Charles presented about the decision on making
  DICOM as an ISO standard that was made in this
  April at a meeting of WG2.
• He focused the importance of relationship between
  ISO and DICOM, largeness of volume of DICOM
  standards, short cycle of developing and
  correcting the standards, etc.
• He also suggested DICOM to be referred form ISO
  documents.
• There were no clear objections nor critics. But
  there was one comment that requested us there
  should be brief explanation of what DICOM
  standard is when ISO standards refer to the DICOM
  standards.
• This presentation and discussion was not
  explained at the closing plenary.

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Others

• Ed Hammond retired the position of WG chair.
  Melvin Reynolds of UK takes the position. Adrian
  Stokes of UK was assigned as a secretary of WG2.
• Ed Hammond was recommended as an ambassador of
  healthcare informatics for developing countries.
• Joint Working Groups meeting will be held between
  September 12th and 14th in San Francisco.

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DICOM

• Strong cooperation with TC215 (liaison A, WADO,
  joint WG2 yearly meeting)
• Strong desire to further expand cooperation.
• DICOM publication as an ISO standard on-going
  discussion
• DICOM is a set of 16 documents (about 3000 pages)
• Available for free distribution from
  dicom.nema.org
• Active extensions (15 supplements/year) and
  maintenance (50 corrections/year).
• Republishing as an ISO Standard and establishing
  on-going maintenance appears a rather big task.
• DICOM has been consulting with the ISO
  secretariat and would like to propose the
  following alternative
• Do nothing, assuming that the international
  acceptance of DICOM is sufficient
• Follow the CEN approach to issue a brief standard
  (scope normative references (ISO directives
  part 2-6.2.2) to DICOM parts).