DICOM WG-06 Base Standard-Actions after November 2018 meeting

Hello DI Community,

Please see details below from DICOM regarding last week's WG-06 Base Standard Meeting. Please note, next meeting is scheduled for Monday January 7 and Friday January 11, 2019– MITA HQ, Arlington, VA.

Raqia Hazam







Dear DICOM Community

Here is a quick summary of last week’s WG-06 Base Standard Meeting.

Change Proposals (CPs):

CPack-98- Ballot passed [20 CPs]
•The following CP’s were approved for Final Text: 991, 1663, 1746 1747, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794,1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1809

CPack-99- Letter Ballot [36 CPs]
•The following CP’s will be distributed out for balloting on Monday, Nov.19, 2018: 1626, 1674, 1714, 1736 , 1764, 1779, 1793, 1797, 1807, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813 , 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824,1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829,1830, 1833, 1834, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1840

January 2019 Voting Package:
•Candidates for the January 2019 Voting Package (CPack-100): 1551, 1552, 1766, 1770, 1835, 1839, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1851, 1853, 1854, 1855

CP-1850 Change old RT-style SNOMED IDs to CT-style Concept IDs

We strongly encourage you to submit comments on CP-1850 Change old RT-style SNOMED IDs to CT-style Concept IDs – It is been out for Public Comment. Deadline: Friday, January 4, 2019.

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.

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

Supplements (Sups): Supplement 183 [PS3.18 Web Services Re-Documentation] has been out for balloting: Deadline to submit votes and any comments is Sunday, December 30th, 2018.

WG-06 Decisions/Actions November 5-9, 2018

Supplement 147 [Second Generation Radiotherapy - Prescription and Segment Annotation] - It was approved for Final Text. It is expected
that the supplement will be included in the next DICOM Standard Release 2018e
Supplement 164 [Contrast Administration Reporting ] – It was approved for Final Text. It is expected that the supplement will be included in
the next DICOM Standard Release 2018e
Supplement 175 [2nd Gen. C-arm RT Treatment] – It was not approved for Letter Ballot. It will return for another letter ballot review in
January of 2019.
Supplement 183 [PS3.18 Web Services Re-Documentation] - It was approved for Letter Ballot Deadline: Sunday, December 30, 2018.
Supplement 188 [Multi-energy CT]- It was approved for Final Text. It is expected that the supplement will be included in the next DICOM
Standard Release 2018e
Supplement 202 [Real Time Video] - It was not approved for Letter Ballot. It will return for another letter ballot review in January of 2019.
Supplement 206 [CRYPTREC TLS Profile]- It was approved for Final Text. The new name of the Supplement is: Supplement 206
EXTENDED BCP195 TLS. It is expected that the supplement will be included in the next DICOM Standard Release 2018e
Supplement 210 Functional Acquisition Paradigm Protocol Storage- It was reviewed. The editor of the Supplement received necessary
feedback and will continue to work on it with DICOM WG-16 fMRI. It will return for another review in March of 2019.
Supplement XXX DICOMWEB Support for Retrieve via Application/ Zip- It was reviewed. The editor of the Supplement
received necessary feedback and will continue to work on it with DICOM WG-27 Web Technologies. It will return for
another review in January of 2019.

Please note that the DICOM NEWS will be updated soon: www.dicomstandard.org/news/
Copies of draft supplements in development are posted in the ‘meeting folders’ of each WG-06 meeting when discussed. Please let me (Luiza Kowalczyk) know if you have any issues with accessing the ftp server. I know it can sometimes be challenging.

Next WG-06 Base Standard meeting: Monday-Friday, January 7-11, 2019– MITA HQ, Arlington, VA

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE CORE GROUP OF WG-06 Base Standard PARTICIPATING MEMBERS FOR ANOTHER 5 DAYS OF HARD WORK:
AGFA HealthCare – Paul Seifert
Canon Medical Research U.S.A -Kevin O’Donnell
GE Healthcare- Charles Parisot
JIRA- Akihiro Yomoda
PixelMed-David Clunie- DICOM Editor of DICOM WG-06
Philips-Wim Corbijn
Siemens Healthineers- Bjorn Nolte, Chair of DICOM WG-06
Fairhaven Technologies - Rob Horn

ALSO SPECIAL THANKS TO THE EDITORS OF SUPPLEMENTS THAT WERE PRESENTED AND DISCUSSED
Sup 147 & 175 - Ulrich Busch, Varian Medical Systems and Christof Schadt, Brainlab AG
Sup 164-Sridhar Balasubramanian, Bayer, Uwe Tronnier, CSImed
Sup 183-PS3.18 Web Services Re-Documentation, Jim Philbin
Sup188-Reinhard Ruf, Siemens Healthineers, Shlomo Gotman, Philips
Sup 202- Emmanuel Cordonnier, b<>com
Sup 206-Rob Horn, Fairhaven Technologies
Sup 210- Functional Acquisition Paradigm Protocol Storage, Wim Corbijn, Philips
Sup XXX- DICOMWEB Support for Retrieve via Application/ Zip, Brad Genereaux
HL7 FHIR Resources Review – Brad Genereaux, Agfa Healthcare and Elliot Silver, Change Healthcare

Feel free to contact the Editors directly with questions about these Supplements.
Once again, thank you for all your hard work! It is greatly appreciated!