Veterinary Radiology Report standards development
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Dennis Ballance
Oct 21, 2010, 6:15:34 PM10/21/10
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All,
Back in August, a small group of people representing a variety of
companies and agencies began work to define a basic requirements
structure for standardized radiology reporting. Once these
requirements had been fleshed out, we planned to share them with the
profession and encourage additional entities to participate in
reviewing and enhancing the requirements.
As we explored the domain, we discovered that human health is at the
same stage of development, and so we are looking at ways to synergize
these efforts. This has also meant that we had less existing work to
leverage than we expected. As this has effectively slowed the
anticipated timeline, and we do not wish to convey any sense of
elitism or exclusionary behavior, we have decided to open the process,
and membership, to anyone interested.
If you are interested in knowing what has been discussed, visit
http://groups.google.com/group/vrrs. If you want to get copies of
every communication as it happens, join the group. Please indicate
when you join if you are (a) wanting to stay aware and just make
comments on the final product, or (b) wanting to help with the dirty
work of drafting a standard.
At this time, the organization is part of AVI, but I anticipate it
will fold into IHE once a veterinary domain is established. There is
no cost for membership, just a willingness to geek out on standards
talk.
Dennis
Back in August, a small group of people representing a variety of
companies and agencies began work to define a basic requirements
structure for standardized radiology reporting. Once these
requirements had been fleshed out, we planned to share them with the
profession and encourage additional entities to participate in
reviewing and enhancing the requirements.
As we explored the domain, we discovered that human health is at the
same stage of development, and so we are looking at ways to synergize
these efforts. This has also meant that we had less existing work to
leverage than we expected. As this has effectively slowed the
anticipated timeline, and we do not wish to convey any sense of
elitism or exclusionary behavior, we have decided to open the process,
and membership, to anyone interested.
If you are interested in knowing what has been discussed, visit
http://groups.google.com/group/vrrs. If you want to get copies of
every communication as it happens, join the group. Please indicate
when you join if you are (a) wanting to stay aware and just make
comments on the final product, or (b) wanting to help with the dirty
work of drafting a standard.
At this time, the organization is part of AVI, but I anticipate it
will fold into IHE once a veterinary domain is established. There is
no cost for membership, just a willingness to geek out on standards
talk.
Dennis
Jeff Wilcke
Oct 22, 2010, 9:10:05 AM10/22/10
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Dennis,
...and good for you all. This is an exciting vehicle for making standards do something useful. :-)
There is a small terminology speed bump about which you should be aware, specifically related to the DICOM-SNOMED microglossary. Most of it has to do with difficulties creating veterinary-appropriate terminology and associated codes. (I think we've talked about this before). To my knowledge DICOM is still using "antique" SNOMED codes and we can't create them for new content that you may need. Hardly a show-stopper I think, but something to keep in the backs of your minds.
-Jeff
...and good for you all. This is an exciting vehicle for making standards do something useful. :-)
There is a small terminology speed bump about which you should be aware, specifically related to the DICOM-SNOMED microglossary. Most of it has to do with difficulties creating veterinary-appropriate terminology and associated codes. (I think we've talked about this before). To my knowledge DICOM is still using "antique" SNOMED codes and we can't create them for new content that you may need. Hardly a show-stopper I think, but something to keep in the backs of your minds.
-Jeff
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Jim Case
Nov 7, 2010, 10:10:28 AM11/7/10
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Likewise, good show on moving in this direction. As an aside to Jeff's comment on "antique" SNOMED codes, I would agree that this is a "spanner on the works", but the limitations on assigning these types of codes are only limited to extensions to SNOMED CT. All concepts that are added to the international release are also assigned the legact codes. I am not advocating the continued use of these codes as they are problematic for a variety of other reasons, but if the veterinary radiology community is interested in getting content into the international release as opposed to only adding it to the veterinary extension, then this obstacle is removed (only for those terms that get into the core). It might provide a way to transition to SNOMED CT concept IDs, which should be the ultimate goal.
Jim
Jeff Wilcke
Nov 7, 2010, 6:11:02 PM11/7/10
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Indeed, though we should keep an eye on strange things done at IHTSDO to facilitate automated processing of the "non-human subset.". Apparently veterinary terms offend the sensibilities of (especially) our colleagues in UK.
-Jeff
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