REMINDER: IHE Planning Committee Short List Ballot September 2nd

On Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015, at 1pm CDT, there is a IHE Planning Committee webex to review AND VOTE on the IHE Radiology Profile Proposals for the 2015-2016 development cycle. In order to qualify to vote on this call you need to have participated in the Planning Committee Co-Chair voting as described by Ben in an earlier post.

There are TEN new IHE Radiology Profile Proposals. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO REVIEW THESE PROPOSALS IN ADVANCE. You will also want to consider your priorities among these proposals. The remote reading profile that we have been working on is one of the profiles on the list. Profile B; Cross Enterprise Reporting for Imaging.

The profile proposals can be found here: wiki.ihe.net/index.php?title=Radiology_Proposals_2015-2016#Brief_Proposals

The IHE Radiology Technical Committee will accept SIX proposals for technical evaluation. In other words, the top six proposals which receive the highest votes at this meeting will make the "short list" and move to the IHE Rad Technical Committee for evaluation. All six of the "short list" proposals will then be included in the Final Voting selection, scheduled for Tuesday, October 6th, 2015, at 11:00am CT. You must participate in the Technical Committee co-chair voting also currently underway in order to qualify for in the Final voting on October 6th.

The Agenda for this "Short List Vote" webex is:

1. Agenda Review and Welcome/Intro (5 minutes)

2. Proposal Author introduces each proposal (5 minutes total each proposal; Proposals B through K)
-Proposal displayed from wiki
-Proposal Author describes 2 or 3 key points of their choice (3 min each proposal)
-One or, at most, two questions and answers per profile (2 min each proposal)

3. Vote taken during call/online 1:55pm CT
-an online ballot will be made available on the webex and briefly explained
-you will vote for Proposals B through K by assigning a rank (number) "10" (high) through "1" (low) to each proposal, else disqualified
-you must vote for every proposal, assigning the rank 10 (highest), 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (lowest)
-votes will be confidential
-votes will be verified, tallied on line by RSNA staff, and announced, but the announcement will most likely extend beyond 2pm CT if you are able to stay online

You must attend this call to vote. You must meet IHE Rad Planning Committee voting eligibility requirements for your vote to be counted. This eligibility was described in detail in the Planning Committee Co-Chair Vote email from Jamie Kontos dated Aug 20, 2015, 12:19pm CT, or found on the google group announcement here: groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ihe-rad-plan/Boyki-oeX0M . If you do not meet voting eligibility requirements, you may vote and your vote will be counted towards Planning Committee attendance and future voting eligibility.

For the webex information for this meeting, please see groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ihe-rad-plan/x8yEermqSd4 .

Please submit questions by Monday, August 31st, 2015, as follows:

Questions about the profile proposals may be sent directly to the profile authors with cc: to the Planning Committee co-chairs. (cc: Teri Sippel This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Chris Lindop This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Questions about voting eligibility or webex access may be directed to Jamie Kontos This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..