Soliciting Public Comments on CP-1850 Change old RT-style SNOMED IDs to CT-style Concept IDs.: December 2018 deadline

Dear DI Community,

Please see this request for public comment from DICOM regarding SNOMED RT.

Please let me know if there are any concerns by the beginning of December 2018 so that I can comment on your behalf.

Thank you.

Regards,

Andrea


To: DICOM Community

Cc: Chair of WG-06 – Bjorn Nolte, Siemens Healthineers
DICOM Editor – David Clunie, PixelMed

From: DICOM Secretariat Office
Lisa Spellman, General DICOM Secretary
Luiza Kowalczyk, Senior Manager, DICOM Operations

Subject: Soliciting Public Comments on CP-1850 Change old RT-style SNOMED IDs to CT-style Concept IDs.

ATTENTION: This Change Proposal may have a significant impact on your implementations.
The DICOM Standard Committee is circulating this CP for special public comment due to its scope and content. Please read the rationale section of the CP carefully.
We encourage commenters to perform risk assessments (an example is shown in the rationale) and communicate the results back to the Committee. The more detail you provide (specific codes, specific consequences) the better we will be able to help mitigate those risks.
Thank you for your attention.

Submit comments as soon as possible but no later than by midnight Friday, January 4, 2019.
There is no cost or obligation associated with commenting and no membership in any committee is required to comment but commenters are requested to include their contact information with their comments.
Who can comment? All interested persons are invited to comment. Recipients of this solicitation should feel free to forward it to anybody who may be interested in this topic but not now on DICOM e-mail lists. There is no cost or obligation associated with commenting and no membership in any committee is required to comment but commenters will be requested to include their contact information with their comments.
What will happen to your comments? DICOM WG-06 Base Standard will review the comments and discuss their resolution. WG-06 is authorized by the DICOM Standard Committee to decide on the technical merits of the comments.
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‘Download’ links:

CP-1850_pc_replacingsrtwithsct.pdf- PDF Document
standards.nema.org/higherlogic/ws/public/download/23401/cp1850_pc_replacingsrtwithsct.zip
Please click on the following link to submit comments on CP-1850_pc_replacingsrtwithsct
standards.nema.org/higherlogic/ws/public/add_comment?document_id=23401

PLEASE NOTE:
The CP-1850 Change old RT-style SNOMED IDs to CT-style Concept IDs is also uploaded on the DICOM website and the ftp server:

• www.dicomstandard.org/comment/
• ftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/CP